Pedro Passos Coelho | |
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| Prime Minister of Portugal | |
| In office 21 June 2011 – 26 November 2015 | |
| President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Deputy | Paulo Portas |
| Preceded by | José Sócrates |
| Succeeded by | António Costa |
| President of the Social Democratic Party | |
| In office 9 April 2010 – 16 February 2018 | |
| Secretary-General | Luís Marques Guedes Miguel Relvas José Matos Rosa |
| Preceded by | Manuela Ferreira Leite |
| Succeeded by | Rui Rio |
| President of the Social Democratic Youth | |
| In office 11 March 1990 – 17 December 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Coelho |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Moreira da Silva |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 23 October 2015 – 28 February 2018 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| In office 20 June 2011 – 22 October 2015 | |
| Constituency | Vila Real |
| In office 4 November 1991 – 24 October 1999 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho (1964-07-24)24 July 1964 (age 61) Coimbra, Portugal |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco |
| Alma mater | Lusíada University of Lisbon |
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Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho (European Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈpeðɾumɐˈnwɛlmɐˈmɛðɨˈpasuʃˈkwɐʎu]; born 24 July 1964) is aPortuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the117thprime minister of Portugal, in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of theSocial Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.
Passos Coelho started very early in politics and was the national leader of the youth branch of PSD. He led theXIX Governo Constitucional (19th Constitutional Government of Portugal) and theXX Governo Constitucional (20th Constitutional Government of Portugal) as head of government from 21 June 2011 to 26 November 2015. His term in office oversaw the application of theEuropean troikabailout to Portugal (requested by the previous Prime Minister,José Sócrates of theSocialist Party) and was marked by a wave of widespreadausterity in both Portugal and abroad.[1][2][3]
Pedro Passos Coelho was born in the parish ofSé Nova inCoimbra, Portugal, on 24 July 1964. He is the youngest son of amedical doctor, António Passos Coelho (born in Vale de Nogueiras,Vila Real, 31 May 1926 – 4 February 2019) and Maria Rodrigues Santos Mamede (born in Santana da Serra,Ourique, c. 1930), a nurse whom António married in 1955. He has an older sister, Maria Teresa Mamede Passos Coelho, a medical doctor,[4] and an older brother, Miguel Mamede Passos Coelho, who was born withcerebral palsy.[5][6]
He spent his childhood inAngola — then an overseas territory of Portugal after it had been colonised by the Portuguese since the 16th century — where his father practised medicine. After theCarnation Revolution in 1974 and the independence of the territory as thePeople's Republic of Angola, he returned with his family to Europe and settled inVila Real, in northern Portugal.
He started very early in politics, as a 14-year-old boy, and had a long and prominent career in the youth branch of theSocial Democratic Party (PSD), theJSD, where he was a member of the National Council (1980–1982). As a young student, his academic interests, vocations and ambitions were directed towards a future career in medicine, to follow his father and older sister's steps, or instead mathematics. However, his largest ambition and vocation revolved around politics.[7]
Passos Coelho moved to Africa at five years of age, and studied in basic schools of the cities ofSilva Porto and laterLuanda, inthe former Portuguese territory of Angola, until the age of 10. His parents went to the Portuguese African territory of Angola to work there among the native rural populations who were plagued bytropical diseases such astuberculosis. Firstly, Coelho studied in anun-runCatholic school, then in the public school, and again in another Catholic school run by theMarist Brothers. Then, after theCarnation Revolution in 1974, and the dismantling of the Portuguese Overseas Empire in Africa, he returned to Europe, settling in his grandparents estate, in Vale de Nogueiras, near the city ofVila Real,Norte Region, Portugal. His father only rejoined the family in 1975, the year that Angola became an independent territory known as thePeople's Republic of Angola. To attend a secondary education institution in Vila Real, theLiceu Nacional Camilo Castelo-Branco (Camilo Castelo-Branco National High School), he moved to the city.[8]
He worked for the youth branch of the PSD party, preparing motions and documents, and these time-consuming tasks impacted his final high school grades. As his desire had been to pursue Medicine – as had his father and his sister – he reduced his political activities for a year to focus on studying (a school year which he had to repeat), aiming to improve his grades in order to reach the high marks needed to enroll at a medical school in Lisbon; during this time, when he was 18 years old, he also started working as a math teacher inVila Pouca de Aguiar. His final high school average mark was 16.8 (out of 20), which was 0.2 values short of what was necessary to be admitted into Medicine; therefore, he chose to study Mathematics atFaculdade de Ciências de Lisboa. He did not, however, finish his degree, having instead elected to work full-time in his party's youth branch – his new life in the capital city of Portugal having probably been a driving factor in this decision.[9] In 1987, he was elected vice-president of JSD, and president in 1991. The following year, aged 24 years old, his first child was born to Fátima Padinha, a former member of the girl bandDoce who he would later marry.[10]
After dropping out of the University of Lisbon, he would enrol in 1999 in the Lusíada University, where he would obtain a degree in economics in 2001, when he was 37 years old. By then he had already beenmember of the parliament between 1991 and 1999, among other attributions (he worked in apublic relations capacity during the late 1980s at Qimibro, a metals broker andtrading firm founded byJosé Manuel Bento dos Santos andEduardo Catroga,[11] after invitation of a cousin who worked there).[12]
Starting very early in politics, he had a long career in the youth branch of theSocial Democratic Party (PSD), theJSD, where he was a member of the National Council (1980–1982) and chairman of the Political Committee (1990–1995). He was aLisbon deputy to theAssembly of the Republic in the VI and VII Legislatures (1991–1999); he also joined the Parliamentary Assembly ofNATO (1991–1995) and was vice chairman of the Parliamentary Group ofPSD (1996–1999). In 1997, he ran for mayor ofAmadora without success, but was elected municipal councillor (1997–2001). After he had been a member of the parliament from 1991 to 1999, Passos Coelho became eligible by law to a life pension; however, he declined the offer.
He was awarded adegree in economics by Lusíada University (Lisbon) when he was 37 (2001). He became a consultant with Tecnoformas (2000–2004), collaborator of LDN Consultants (2001–2004), Director of the Training Department and coordinator of the Program of Seminars URBE – Núcleos Urbanos de Pesquisa e Intervenção (2003–2004). He joined the companyFomentinvest[13] as a CFO (2004–2006) working withÂngelo Correia, chairman of Fomentinvest and also a noted member of PSD. Correia, an experienced member of PSD, is a close friend of Passos Coelho, both inside their party and corporate governance careers, and is considered Passos Coelho's political mentor.[14][15] Passos Coelho became a member of the Executive (in 2007), accumulating the functions of chairman of the Board of the HLCTejo (2007–2009).
He was vice-president ofPSD during the leadership ofLuís Marques Mendes (2005–2006) and has also been president of the Municipal Assembly ofVila Real Municipality since 2005; he was a presidential candidate for PSD in May 2008, where he proposed for the first time a programmatic review of the party's orientation. Defeated byManuela Ferreira Leite, he founded, with a group of his supporters, thethink-tank Construir Ideias (Building Ideas). On 21 January 2010, his bookMudar ("To Change") was published, and he was again a candidate for the leadership of PSD for the direct elections in March 2010; he was elected president of PSD on 26 March 2010.
By 2010, in a context ofsovereign default, he helped defeat the Socialist government under the leadership ofJosé Sócrates when it tried to adopt a package of austerity measures to maintain economic stability, leading to the resignation of the prime minister on 23 March 2011, andthe general election of 5 June 2011.[16]
On 5 June 2011, following the2011 Portuguese legislative election, Passos Coelho was electedPrime Minister of Portugal.[17] He achieved a historical win for his political party PSD, defeatingJosé Sócrates from theSocialist Party (PS). Through a coalition withCDS-PP, Passos Coelho and PSD were in a position to form a right-wing majority in thePortuguese Parliament. Immediately after the election, he started conversations with Christian Democratic PresidentPaulo Portas to form the coalition.
Passos Coelho's political program was considered by the Portuguese left (Socialist Party (PS) and its communist political allies), which had governed the country during most of the time until the financial collapse of 2010, as strictly aligned witheconomic liberalism,[18][better source needed] and included a firm intention to accomplish theEuropean Union/IMF-led rescue plan for Portugal'ssovereign debt crisis. The rescue plan included widespread tax increases and reforms aimed at better efficiency and rationalised resource allocation in thepublic sector, to reduce the number of unnecessary civil servants and chronic public sector's overcapacity.[19] It also included the privatization of at least one channel of the public radio and televisionRTP network,[20] theCaixa Geral de Depósitos' insurance operations (includingFidelidade), and some parts of the National Service of Health.[21][22]
His coalition partnerPaulo Portas of CDS-PP, publicly expressed his disapproval of some of Passos Coelho's proposals.[23] Passos Coelho entered office as a moderate social conservative, with a mixed record on abortion (he voted no in the 1998 referendum and yes in the following in 2007),[citation needed] while opposing euthanasia[24] and same-sex marriage, supporting same-sex civil unions instead.[25] It was not certain if he would try to overrule the previousJosé Sócrates-led Socialist government laws that allowed abortion until 10 weeks and same-sex marriage in Portugal. During his campaign, he admitted the re-evaluation of the current abortion law[26] approved in 2007, after a referendum, that allowed it under any circumstance until 10 weeks of pregnancy. The law was deemed unconstitutional by 6 of the 13 judges of the Portuguese Constitutional Court.[27]
Other creations of the previous cabinets led by former Prime Minister José Sócrates were criticised by Passos Coelho, including the state-sponsoredNovas Oportunidades educational qualification program for unschooled adults, which was dubbed a fraud due to alleged low standards of intellectual rigour and academic integrity.[28] Pedro Passos Coelho and his government cabinet launched the foundations of theBanco Português de Fomento group and established Portugal's state-owned venture capital and private equity investing arm Portugal Ventures.[29]
The legislative elections of 2011, held on 5 June, would give Passos Coelho the biggest share of seats in the Assembly of the Republic, with 108 out of 230 seats. In Portugal, tradition and most interpretations of the Constitution, as it is, state that he who leads the party with the most seats is invited, by the President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, to form the XIX constitutional government, so Passos Coelho had guaranteed the Prime Minister's position for himself, and the government to his party. But without an absolute majority in parliament, he couldn't guarantee stability. He needed to negotiate a coalition with another party, the closest party to PSD, ideologically, at the time, and still today, was CDS-PP, and as luck would have it, CDS-PP had 24 seats; when put together, the two parties had 132 out of 230. But Passos Coelho would only form ga overnment when he had the coalition signed, and so negotiations began in earnest. It only took 10 days, from being invited to form a government on 6 June to having a deal signed with CDS-PP on June 16th, and another 5 days for all the ministers and the Prime Minister to be sworn in, on June 21st.
Passos Coelho's first government can be divided into two phases: 2011-2013; 2013-2015. From 2011 to 2013, he had a cabinet, almost completely different from the one he had from 2013 to 2015.[30][31][32][33][34][35]
1st Cabinet Membership
| Ministry | Incumbent | Party affiliation | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| State | Paulo Portas | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 24 July 2013 |
| Vítor Gaspar | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 1 July 2013 | |
| Foreign Affairs | Paulo Portas | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 24 July 2013 |
| Finances | Vítor Gaspar | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 1 July 2013 |
| National Defence | José Pedro Aguiar Branco | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Internal Administration | Miguel Macedo | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 19 November 2014 |
| Justice | Paula Teixeira da Cruz | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Minister in the Cabinet | Miguel Relvas | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 13 April 2013 |
| Parliament Affairs | |||
| Presidency of the Council of Ministers | Luís Marques Guedes | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Economy | Álvaro Santos Pereira | Independent | 21 June 2011 - 24 July 2013 |
| Labour | |||
| Agriculture | Assunção Cristas | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 24 July 2013 |
| Sea | |||
| Environment | |||
| Territorial Planning | |||
| Health | Paulo Macedo | Independent | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Education | Nuno Crato | Independent | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Science | |||
| Solidarity | Pedro Mota Soares | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 24 July 2013 |
| Social Security |
2nd Cabinet Membership
| Ministry | Incumbent | Party affiliation | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deputy Prime Minister | Paulo Portas | CDS-PP | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| State | Rui Machete | PSD | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Maria Luís Albuquerque | PSD | 2 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 | |
| Foreign Affairs | Rui Machete | PSD | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Finances | Maria Luís Albuquerque | PSD | 2 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| National Defence | José Pedro Aguiar Branco | PSD | 21 June 21 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Internal Administration | Miguel Macedo | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 19 November 2014 |
| Anabela Rodrigues | Independent | 19 November 2014 - 30 October 2015 | |
| Justice | Paula Teixeira da Cruz | PSD | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Minister in the Cabinet | Miguel Poiares Maduro | PSD | 13 April 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Regional Development | |||
| Parliament Affairs | Luís Marques Guedes | PSD | 13 April 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Presidency of the Council of Ministers | |||
| Economy | António Pires de Lima | CDS-PP | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Agriculture | Assunção Cristas | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Sea | |||
| Environment | Jorge Moreira da Silva | PSD | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
| Territorial Planning | |||
| Energy | |||
| Health | Paulo Macedo | Independent | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Education | Nuno Crato | Independent | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Science | |||
| Solidarity | Pedro Mota Soares | CDS-PP | 21 June 2011 - 30 October 2015 |
| Social Security | |||
| Labour | 24 July 2013 - 30 October 2015 |
XX Constitutional Government
The legislative elections of 2015 were held on 4 October; the two government parties (PSD and CDS-PP) ran together under the name "Portugal à Frente" (PàF) or "Portugal Ahead". The Coalition, as it was called in the media, won the elections, without an absolute majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic, with 107 out of 230. As mentioned before, tradition and most interpretations of the Constitution state that he who leads the party with the most seats is invited by the President of the Republic to form a government, and so it was. On 22 October, Passos Coelho was appointed Prime Minister by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
The remaining parties in parliament were the Socialists (PS), with 86 seats, the Leftists (BE) with 19 seats, the Communists, with 16 seats, the Greens, with a single seat (elected in coalition CDU with the Communists) and the environmentalists (PAN) with a single seat as well.
After the election, Socialist Party leader António Costa entered negotiations with the other two major left-wing parties to form a confidence and supply agreement, and on 4 October the involved parties agreed to vote in favour of a no-confidence vote proposed by the Socialists, held on 10 November. By then, all the negotiations were completed, and Passos Coelho's Government's fate had been sealed.[38][39][40][41]
António Costa's deal with the far-Left became known as the "Geringonça" meaning "contraption" - in this case, also meaning an improvised construction job, as from 2015 to 2019, the parties included in the ruling government coalition did not have a majority by themselves, and indeed had to rely on the confidence and supply agreement to remain in power.[42]
The XX Constitutional government took office on 30 October 2015, leaving office 27 days later, on 26 November 2015.[43][44]
Membership
| Ministry | Incumbent | Party affiliation | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deputy Prime Minister | Paulo Portas | CDS-PP | 30 October 2015 - 26 November 2015 |
| State | Rui Machete | PSD | |
| Maria Luís Albuquerque | PSD | ||
| Finances | Maria Luís Albuquerque | PSD | |
| Foreign Affairs | Rui Machete | PSD | |
| National Defence | José Pedro Aguiar Branco | PSD | |
| Internal Administration | João Calvão da Silva | PSD | |
| Justice | Fernando Negrão | PSD | |
| Parliament Affairs | Carlos Costa Neves | PSD | |
| Presidency of the Council of Ministers | Luís Marques Guedes | PSD | |
| Regional Development | |||
| Economy | Miguel Morais Leitão | CDS-PP | |
| Agriculture | Assunção Cristas | CDS-PP | |
| Sea | |||
| Environment | Jorge Moreira da Silva | PSD | |
| Territorial Planning | |||
| Energy | |||
| Health | Fernado Leal da Costa | Independent | |
| Education | Margarida Mano | Independent | |
| Science | |||
| Solidarity | Pedro Mota Soares | CDS-PP | |
| Labour | |||
| Social Security | |||
| Administrative Modernisation | Rui Medeiros | Independent | |
| Culture | Teresa Morais | PSD | |
| Equality | |||
| Citizenship |
Following a poor performance in the October 2017 local elections, Passos Coelho announced his resignation from the party leadership, calling early elections for January of 2018, where Rui Rio, former mayor of Porto, was elected to the leadership.[46][47]
To accomplish theEuropean Union/IMF-led rescue plan for Portugal'ssovereign debt crisis, in July and August 2011, his government announced it was going to cut on state spending and increase austerity measures, including additional tax increases, but it will also have a social emergency package to help the poorest citizens. As time went on, it became increasingly clear that a series of supplementary measures would be taken during the course of the year as a means to restrain an out-of-control budget deficit. These included sharp cuts in spending on state-runhealthcare,education andsocial security systems. His cabinet enforced reforms of the local administration to save money by avoiding unnecessary resource allocation and redundancy. This included extinguishing the 18Civil Governments (Governo Civil) located across the country[48] and a large number ofparishes.[49] According to theInstituto Nacional de Estatística, there were 4,261 parishes in Portugal in 2006. The reform implemented according to Law 11-A/2013 of 28 January 2013, which defined the reorganisation of the civil parishes, reduced the number of parishes to 3,091. Nevertheless, due to Portugal's legal constraints[50] avoiding planned job cuts like those made across several developed countries at the time to fight overspending and overstaffing at municipality level,[51][52][53][54] the 2013 mergers eventuallyincreased the spending with the parishes.[55]
ThePortuguese Constitutional Court, with the praise of most unions and opposition party leaders, eventually rejected the equivalent to 20% of the government's austerity policies proposed by Passos Coelho and his cabinet.[63] Most of the rejected proposals were related withlabor market flexibility,public pensions' sustainability, civil servants' privileges and job cuts in the civil service.[50][64][65][66]
During his first year in cabinet, it became clear that the deep economic and financial crisis of Portugal would prompt several policy changes and increasing dissent over the cabinet's judgement. After an inaugural speech in which he promised, in the long run, to stabilise the economy, promote financial growth, employment, and protect those who needed the most, he moved on to adopt deep austerity measures that, in the view of his detractors, within the first year of government, led to the exact opposite. High-paying jobs and pensions were slashed while the lower ones were less affected.[67] In addition, his government had earlier adopted a promoting stance on emigration, often advising the growing number of young unemployed people to leave the country.[58] On 15 September 2012, Passos Coelho and his coalition government faced one of the biggest civil protests in the history of Portuguese democracy, where demands were made for solutions to be put in place. On 21 September 2012, while the Prime Minister and members of the cabinet were meeting with PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva, a large number of citizens protested in front of the presidential house, theBelém Palace, some throwing bottles at security forces.[68]
Grand-Cross of theOrder of Merit,Poland (6 June 2012)[69] Grand-Cross with diamonds of theOrder of the Sun,Peru (6 June 2012)[69] Sash of Special Category of theOrder of the Aztec Eagle,Mexico (28 October 2014)[69]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS | Joaquim Raposo | 28,127 | 33.9 | 4 | ±0 | |
| CDU | Orlando de Almeida | 24,065 | 29.0 | 4 | ±0 | |
| PSD | Pedro Passos Coelho | 22,223 | 26.8 | 3 | ±0 | |
| CDS–PP | – | 2,864 | 3.5 | 0 | ±0 | |
| UDP | – | 1,094 | 1.3 | 0 | ±0 | |
| PCTP/MRPP | – | 972 | 1.2 | 0 | ±0 | |
| PSR | – | 604 | 0.7 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 3,082 | 3.7 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 83,031 | 51.37 | 11 | ±0 | ||
| Source: Autárquicas 1997[70] | ||||||
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manuela Ferreira Leite | 17,278 | 37.9 | |
| Pedro Passos Coelho | 14,160 | 31.1 | |
| Pedro Santana Lopes | 13,495 | 29.6 | |
| Patinha Antão | 308 | 0.7 | |
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 351 | 0.8 | |
| Turnout | 45,592 | 59.13 | |
| Source: Resultados[71] | |||
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedro Passos Coelho | 31,671 | 61.2 | |
| Paulo Rangel | 17,821 | 34.4 | |
| José Pedro Aguiar Branco | 1,769 | 3.4 | |
| Castanheira Barros | 138 | 0.3 | |
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 349 | 0.7 | |
| Turnout | 51,748 | 66.26 | |
| Source: Resultados[72] | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSD | Pedro Passos Coelho | 2,159,181 | 38.7 | 108 | +27 | |
| PS | José Sócrates | 1,566,347 | 28.0 | 74 | –23 | |
| CDS–PP | Paulo Portas | 653,888 | 11.7 | 24 | +3 | |
| CDU | Jerónimo de Sousa | 441,147 | 7.9 | 16 | +1 | |
| BE | Francisco Louçã | 288,923 | 5.2 | 8 | –8 | |
| PCTP/MRPP | Garcia Pereira | 62,610 | 1.1 | 0 | ±0 | |
| PAN | Paulo Borges | 57,995 | 1.0 | 0 | new | |
| Other parties | 126,521 | 2.3 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 228,017 | 4.1 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 5,585,054 | 58.03 | 230 | ±0 | ||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[73] | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PàF | Pedro Passos Coelho | 2,085,465 | 38.6 | 107 | –25 | |
| PS | António Costa | 1,747,730 | 32.3 | 86 | +12 | |
| BE | Catarina Martins | 550,945 | 10.2 | 19 | +11 | |
| CDU | Jerónimo de Sousa | 445,901 | 8.3 | 17 | +1 | |
| PAN | André Silva | 75,170 | 1.4 | 1 | +1 | |
| PDR | Marinho e Pinto | 61,920 | 1.1 | 0 | new | |
| PCTP/MRPP | Garcia Pereira | 60,045 | 1.1 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Other parties | 178,937 | 3.3 | 0 | ±0 | ||
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 201,979 | 3.7 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 5,408,092 | 55.84 | 230 | ±0 | ||
| Source: Diário da República[74] | ||||||
Passos Coelho lives inMassamá,Greater Lisbon. He was married to Fátima Padinha, a former singer in thegirl bandDoce, with whom he has two daughters, Joana Padinha Passos Coelho (born 1988) and Catarina Padinha Passos Coelho (born 1993). His second marriage was toLaura Ferreira, aphysiotherapy technician, born inBissau,Portuguese Guinea (nowGuinea-Bissau, West Africa),[75] with whom he has one daughter, Júlia Ferreira Passos Coelho (born 2007). Laura Ferreira had been fighting cancer and died on 25 February 2020.[76][77][78]
Apart from his nativePortuguese, he can also speak some French and English. After his tenure as Prime Minister of Portugal, he became a teacher at both the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (University of Lisbon) and the Lusíada University.
Pedro Passos Coelho studied opera singing, is abaritone and even signed up for aFilipe La Féria casting.[79]
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| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Portugal 2011–2015 | Succeeded by |
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