Rui Tavares
Rui Tavares | |
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Member of the Lisbon City Council | |
Assumed office 18 October 2021 | |
Mayor | Carlos Moedas |
Portfolio | None |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014 | |
Constituency | Portugal |
Personal details | |
Born | Rui Miguel Marcelino Tavares Pereira 29 July 1972 PhD) |
Profession | Historian, translator |
Rui Miguel Marcelino Tavares Pereira (born 29 July 1972) is a
Tavares is one of the founders and leaders of the green political party LIVRE, established in 2014. He had previously served as an independent Member of the European Parliament, elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc.
Early life and career
Rui Tavares was born in Lisbon on 29 July 1972, to a bank clerk (and occasionally shepherd) father and a homemaker mother. Tavares had two older half-siblings (born of his father's first marriage; cut short when he became a widower) and two older siblings.[3]
The family was originally from the small rural village of Arrifana, in
Living with his parents and his next older brother, Tavares attended primary school in Arrifana; of his much older siblings, his sister was already married at the time, and the two other brothers were attending university, one in Lisbon and the other in Czechoslovakia (sponsored by the Portuguese Communist Youth, of which he was a member).[3] Tavares's next older brother attended secondary school in Azambuja and used to bring him books from the school library; by his own admission, Tavares was "bookish" ever since his mother taught him how to read, and he took great pride in having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at this time "as they should be read: perched up in a tree".[3] He became interested in politics at around age 11 or 12, when he started reading anything he could on the different political ideologies at the Municipal Library in Penha de França, and became fascinated with anarchism and left-libertarianism.[3]
Tavares earned a
Political career
He was elected Member of the European Parliament in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the Greens–European Free Alliance group.[5] During his time at the European Parliament, he focused on refugee and fundamental rights issues.
Tavares Report
In June 2013, he was commissioned by the European Parliament to submit a report on Hungarian constitutional concerns. The Tavares Report urged the Hungarian authorities "to implement as swiftly as possible all the measures the European Commission as the guardian of the treaties deems necessary in order to fully comply with EU law... [and with] the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court and... the recommendations of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe and other international bodies…".[6]
LIVRE
In 2014, he founded the new party LIVRE.
In the
Tavares was elected Member of the
Footnotes
- ^ Lopes, Melissa (28 January 2022). "Mulher de Rui Tavares no gabinete de Santos Silva" [Rui Tavares's wife in Santos Silva's staff]. Novo Semanário (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ a b Monteiro, Ana Luísa (25 January 2022). "Rui Tavares: a infância entre Arrifana e Lisboa, as polémicas com Louçã e Joacine e a "eco-geringonça"" [Rui Tavares: the childhood between Arrifana and Lisbon, the controversies with Louçã and Joacine, and the "eco-contraption"]. SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f Mota Ribeiro, Anabela (2 January 2011). "Quando a democracia fizer 48 anos, Rui Tavares abandona a política" [When Democracy turns 48, Rui Tavares will abandon politics]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Investigadores: Instituições, Governação e Relações Internacionais - Rui Tavares". Centro de Estudos Internacionais. ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ "Rui Tavares corta ligação ao BE e muda de bancada no Parlamento Europeu". Público. publico.pt. 22 June 2011. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ cs - čeština. "REPORT on the situation of fundamental rights: standards and practices in Hungary (pursuant to the European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2012) - A7-0229/2013". europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
- ^ "Livre elegeu Rui Tavares em Lisboa" [LIVRE gets Rui Tavares elected in Lisbon]. Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ Domingues, Nuno (29 September 2021). "Os três vereadores do Livre e Cidadãos por Lisboa vão ser oposição a Moedas" [The three councillors from LIVRE and Citizens for Lisbon will be opposition to Moedas] (in Portuguese). TSF. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ "O Livre faz oito anos, Rui Tavares vai ser deputado e Ana vai pintar o cabelo de verde. Cantam todos juntos por "uma terra sem amos"". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ Pincho, João Pedro (31 January 2022). "A festa de anos do Livre teve a eleição de Rui Tavares como brinde". Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 January 2022.