Paulo Portas

Paulo Portas
Portas in 2009
Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
Prime Minister	Pedro Passos Coelho
Preceded by	Eurico de Melo
Succeeded by	Position vacant
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 21 June 2011 – 24 July 2013
Prime Minister	Pedro Passos Coelho
Preceded by	Luís Amado
Succeeded by	Rui Machete
Leader of the CDS – People's Party
In office 21 April 2007 – 13 March 2016
Preceded by	José Ribeiro e Castro
Succeeded by	Assunção Cristas
In office 22 March 1998 – 24 April 2005
Preceded by	Manuel Monteiro
Succeeded by	José Ribeiro e Castro
Minister of National Defence
In office 6 April 2002 – 12 March 2005
Prime Minister	José Manuel Barroso Pedro Santana Lopes
Preceded by	Rui Pena
Succeeded by	Luís Amado
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 1 October 1995 – 2 June 2016
Constituency	Aveiro (1995–2015) Lisbon (2015–2016)
Personal details
Born	Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1962-09-12) 12 September 1962 (age 61) Lisbon, Portugal
Political party	People's Party (1995–present)
Other political affiliations	Social Democratic Party (1975–1982)
Relatives	Miguel Portas (brother) Catarina Portas (half-sister) Sacadura Cabral (great-uncle) Maria Velho da Costa (godmother)
Alma mater	Catholic University of Portugal
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Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ˈpɔɾtɐʃ]) is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties, the CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP) from 1998 to 2005 and 2007–2016, on whose lists he was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in every legislative election between 1995 and 2015. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal from 2013 to 2015, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013, and Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2005, all three times in coalitions of the PSD and his CDS-PP. Portas withdrew from politics in 2016.