Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC (born 15 July 1939, in Boliqueime), is the 19th and current President of Portugal. He won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006 and was re-elected on 23 January 2011, for a second five-year term. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006.
He was previously Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 November 1985 to 28 October 1995. His tenure of ten years was the longest of any Prime Minister since Salazar, and he was the first Portuguese Prime Minister to have won an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system (which was established after the country's redemocratization following the Carnation Revolution).
Read more about Aníbal Cavaco Silva: Early Life and Career, Decade in Power: 1985–1995, Out of Office: 1995–2006, Presidential Candidacy and Term, Family, Personal Quotes, Bibliography
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“Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.”
—Anibal Cavaco Silva (b. 1939)