Prime Minister of Portugal
Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic | |
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Primeiro-Ministro da República Portuguesa | |
São Bento Mansion | |
Seat | Lisbon, Portugal |
Appointer | President |
Term length | No term limit |
Inaugural holder | Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela |
Formation | 24 September 1834 |
Salary | €70,023.52 annually[1] |
Website | portugal.gov.pt |
Constitution |
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The prime minister of Portugal (
There is no limit to the number of terms a person can serve as prime minister. The prime minister is appointed by the president following
History
Since the Middle Ages, some officers of the Portuguese Crown gained precedence over the others, serving as a kind of prime ministers. Over time, the role of principal officer of the Crown fell upon the chanceler-mor (chancellor), the mordomo-mor (mayor of the palace) and the escrivão da puridade (king's private secretary).
The first modern prime minister of Portugal was
The present title Primeiro-Ministro (Prime Minister), attributed to the head of the
Officeholders
The incumbent prime minister of Portugal is Luís Montenegro, who took office on 2 April 2024 as the 14th prime minister of the Third Portuguese Republic.[2] The official residence of the prime minister is a mansion next to São Bento Palace, which, in confusion, is also often called "São Bento Palace".
Portuguese prime ministers of the Third Portuguese Republic:
- 1st Mário Soares (two terms);
- 2nd Alfredo Nobre da Costa;
- 3rd Carlos Mota Pinto;
- 4th Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo;
- 5th Francisco Sá Carneiro;
- (interim) Deputy Prime Minister;
- 6th Francisco Pinto Balsemão (two terms);
- 1st Mário Soares (third term);
- 7th Aníbal Cavaco Silva (three terms);
- 8th António Guterres (two terms);
- 9th José Manuel Barroso;
- 10th Pedro Santana Lopes;
- 11th José Sócrates (two terms);
- 12th Passos Coelho (two terms);
- 13th António Costa (three terms);
- 14th Luís Montenegro;
Prime minister's residence
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Facade of the São Bento Mansion.
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Interior of the Mansion.
Just behind the main building of the Assembly of the Republic, there is a mansion that serves as residence and office for the prime minister of Portugal. The mansion, dated from 1877, was built within the garden of the old monastery that held the Portuguese parliament. It has been the prime minister's official residence since 1938, when Salazar moved in. Although it is the official residence of the prime minister, not all incumbents have lived in the mansion during their term in office.
List of prime ministers of Portugal
Term of office in years
Graphical timeline (since 1976)
Historical rankings of prime ministers
In 2012 and 2014 newspaper
Prime Minister | Party | Tenure | 2012 Pitagórica[6] |
2014 Pitagórica[5] |
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António Guterres | PS | 1995–2002 | 26.8% | 24.2% |
Mário Soares | PS | 1976–1978 1983–1985 |
22.7% | 23.9% |
Aníbal Cavaco Silva | PSD | 1985–1995 | 23.7% | 23.6% |
José Sócrates | PS | 2005–2011 | 6.2% | 7.7% |
Pedro Santana Lopes | PSD | 2004–2005 | 4.0% | 6.9% |
Pedro Passos Coelho | PSD | 2011–2015 | 8.4% | 6.8% |
José Manuel Durão Barroso |
PSD | 2002–2004 | 8.1% | 6.7% |
See also
- Leader of the Opposition (Portugal)
- Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal
- President of Portugal
References
- ^ Miguel Santos (23 September 2015). "E agora um tema sensível: os políticos são mal pagos?". Observador (in Portuguese). Lisbon. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
O mesmo se aplica ao primeiro-ministro: este ano, Pedro Passos Coelho recebe um salário mensal de 5.001,68 euros brutos, menos 12% do que recebia em 2010, antes dos cortes.
- ^ "Presidente deu posse ao primeiro-ministro e ministros do XXIV Governo Constitucional" [President swears in the Prime Minister and ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government] (in Portuguese). 2 April 2024.
- ^ "E o prémio de melhor primeiro-ministro português vai para..." [And the award for the best Portuguese Prime Minister goes to...] (in Portuguese). Notícias ao Minuto. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ a b "António Guterres o melhor primeiro-ministro da democracia e Durão Barroso o pior" [Guterres was the best Prime Minister of the democracy and Durão Barroso was the worst] (in Portuguese). i. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Barómetro Pitagórica Março 2014" (in Portuguese). 1 April 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ "Barómetro Pitagórica Novembro 2012" (in Portuguese). 26 November 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2024.