Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Artur Torres Pereira | |
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Preceded by | Fernando Nogueira |
Succeeded by | José Manuel Barroso |
Leader of the Opposition | |
In office 31 March 1996 – 1 May 1999 | |
Prime Minister | António Guterres |
Preceded by | Fernando Nogueira |
Succeeded by | José Manuel Barroso |
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
In office 12 June 1982 – 9 June 1983 | |
Prime Minister | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
Preceded by | Fernando Amaral |
Succeeded by | António de Almeida Santos |
Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers | |
In office 4 September 1981 – 10 June 1982 | |
Prime Minister | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
Preceded by | José Luís da Cruz Vilaça |
Succeeded by | Leonor Beleza |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
In office 2 June 1975 – 2 April 1976 | |
Constituency | Lisbon |
Personal details | |
Born | Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa 12 December 1948 Lisbon, Portugal |
Political party | Social Democratic Party (1975–2015) Independent (since 2015)[1] |
Spouse |
Ana Cristina da Mota Veiga
(m. 1972; Baltasar Rebelo de Sousa (father) Marcelo Caetano (godfather) |
Residence(s) | Belém Palace (official) Cascais (private) |
Signature | |
Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa
Early life
Born in
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa became a professor and publicist specialized in constitutional law and administrative law, earning his doctorate at the University of Lisbon, where he taught law.[5]
Party politics and academic career
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa started his career during the
in which he gave marks (0 to 20) to the main political players.In 1989 he ran for
Leader of the PSD, 1996–1999
Rebelo de Sousa was the leader of the
Post-leadership
He had a weekly program of political analysis every Sunday on
In 2010, he left RTP and returned to TVI to do the same program that he had before.
He was made a Member of the Council of State, by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and was sworn in on 6 April 2006.[15]
He was a leading figure on the
President of Portugal, 2016–present
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On 24 January 2016, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was elected as President of Portugal in the first round of voting. He stood as an independent, appealing for moderation and cross-party consensus.[18] During his election campaign, he promised to repair political divisions and the hardship of Portugal's 2011–14 bailout. Unlike his predecessor, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, he had never previously held a top state position.[19]
In March 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa asked parliament to authorize a state of emergency to contain the COVID-19 pandemic; this marked the first time the country declared a state of emergency nationwide in 46 years of democratic history.[20]
In December 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced his intention to run for office again in the 2021 Portuguese presidential election.[21] Marcelo was re-elected president in January 2021, with 60.7% of the votes, the third highest vote margin ever in presidential elections in Portugal since the Carnation Revolution. He was also the first candidate ever to win the vote in all municipalities, ranging from 51.3% in the Beja District to 72.16% in Madeira.[22]
State visits
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, as President of Portugal, has visited the
Health
In December 2017, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa underwent emergency surgery at Curry Cabral Hospital in order to treat an incarcerated umbilical hernia.[31][32] The procedure was performed by Eduardo Barroso, a friend of the president.[33] He was discharged from the hospital and lauded the Portuguese National Health Service, considering it an important achievement of Portuguese democracy.[34]
In June 2018, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was briefly hospitalized after he collapsed after a visit to
In October 2019, he underwent planned cardiac catheterization at Santa Cruz Hospital, Carnaxide, in the outskirts of Lisbon, after accumulated calcium was detected in one of his coronary arteries.[37]
On 8 March 2020, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa suspended all his public agenda and returned to his private home in Cascais, entering a voluntary quarantine period for 14 days after being revealed that a group of students from Felgueiras, who had visited Belém Palace some days before, had also been quarantined after a positive case of COVID-19 was detected in their school.[38] Marcelo subsequently tested negative for the virus and worked remotely for a period during the COVID-19 pandemic.[39][40][41][42][43]
On 11 January 2021, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa tested positive for
In December 2021, he underwent planned surgery to remove two inguinal hernias at the Military Hospital in Lisbon.[48]
On 5 July 2023, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa collapsed during a visit to the NOVA University School of Science and Technology, in Almada. He was taken to Santa Cruz Hospital "as a precaution". His chief of staff, Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, assured the situation was probably due to the heat and to the President's "heavy schedule". After being submitted to several medical exams, the President was discharged four hours later, with a Holter monitor, and addressed journalists on his way out from the hospital, saying he had had an episode of low blood pressure since he had skipped lunch — as he usually does, replacing it with Fortimel, a medical nutrition supplement — and had been offered a glass of warm moscatel shortly before he fainted that "must have upset, probably, [his] digestion". The physicians recommended rest, though the President's personal physician, Daniel de Matos, remarked their recommendation would in all likelihood fall on deaf ears. His scheduled presence at several events was nonetheless cancelled until 9 July, but the President recorded video messages to be displayed at those events. Only indoor audiences at Belém Palace remained scheduled.[49][50][51][52]
Personal life
On 22 July 1972, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa married Ana Cristina da Gama Caeiro da Mota Veiga in the parish of
- Nuno da Mota Veiga Rebelo de Sousa (b. São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, 8 August 1973) and
- Sofia da Mota Veiga Rebelo de Sousa (b. São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, 27 September 1976).
The couple separated in 1980 and subsequently divorced, although Marcelo, citing his Roman Catholic faith, believes marriage lasts until death.[54] He started dating his former student Rita Amaral Cabral in 1981, who at the time was his fellow lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.[55] They continue to entertain a casual relationship, but live separately.[56]
Honours and awards
Portuguese Orders
Insignia of Office
- Grand Master of the Honorific Orders of Portugal (2016 – present)
Ancient Military Orders
- Grand Collar of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword (9 March 2021)[57]
- Order of Saint James of the Sword (9 June 1994)[57]
National Orders
- Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (9 June 2005)[57]
Foreign Orders
- Algeria: Collar of the National Order of Merit (23 May 2023)
- Angola: Collar of the Order of Agostinho Neto (6 March 2019)[58]
- Austria: Grand Star of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (12 June 2019)[58][59]
- Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (22 October 2018)[60]
- Brazil: Grand Collar of the Order of the Southern Cross (29 May 2023)[59]
- Order of the Balkan Mountains (30 January 2019)[58]
- Cape Verde: 1st Class of the Amílcar Cabral Order (7 April 2017)[59]
- Chile: Collar of the Order of Merit (27 March 2017)[59]
- Croatia: Grand Cross of the Grand Order of King Tomislav (4 May 2018)[61]
- Cyprus: Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III (8 October 2022)
- Dominican Republic: Grand Cross with Gold Breast Star of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (23 March 2023)[62]
- East Timor: Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste (19 May 2022)[63]
- Estonia: Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (16 April 2019)[64][59]
- France: Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (26 August 2016)[65]
- Greece: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (21 April 2017)[66]
- Guinea-Bissau: Amílcar Cabral Medal (19 May 2021)[59]
- Order of Pius IX (7 July 2016)[65]
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary(23 February 2023)
- Italy: Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (29 November 2017)[67]
- Latvia: Commander Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of the Three Stars (12 April 2023)[68][59]
- Luxembourg: Knight of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (23 May 2017)
- Malta: Honorary Companion of Honour with Collar of the National Order of Merit (15 May 2018)[61]
- Mexico: Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (17 July 2017)[69]
- Moldova: Plaque of the Order of Honour (2 October 2023)[59]
- Morocco: Collar of the Order of Muhammad (27 June 2016)[70]
- Netherlands: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (3 October 2017)[59]
- Paraguay: Collar of the National Order of Merit (11 May 2017)
- Peru: Grand Cross with diamonds of the Order of the Sun of Peru (25 February 2019)
- Poland: Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (11 August 2023)[71][59]
- Romania: Collar of the Order of the Star (3 October 2023)[59]
- Senegal: Grand Cross of the National Order of the Lion (12 April 2017)
- Serbia: Second Class of the Order of the Republic of Serbia (11 January 2017)[72][59]
- Order for Exceptional Merits(31 May 2021)
- Spain:
- Collar of the Order of Charles III (13 April 2018)[73]
- Knight of the Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (28 November 2016)[74][59]
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