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Luís Filipe Menezes

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In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Menezes and the second or paternal family name is Lopes.
Luís Filipe Menezes
President of the Social Democratic Party
In office
12 October 2007 – 20 June 2008
Secretary-GeneralJosé Ribau Esteves
Preceded byLuís Marques Mendes
Succeeded byManuela Ferreira Leite
Mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia
In office
14 January 1997 – 21 October 2013
Preceded byJosé Heitor Carvalheiras
Succeeded byEduardo de Almeida Rodrigues
Secretary of State Assistant for Parliamentary Affairs
In office
5 November 1991 – 28 October 1995
Prime MinisterAníbal Cavaco Silva
Preceded byCarlos Encarnação
Succeeded byAntónio Costa
Personal details
Born
Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes

(1953-11-02) 2 November 1953 (age 71)
Ovar, Portugal
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Spouses
Maria Cândida Valanzuela de Sampayo Tavares
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(m. 1980; div. 2010)​
Ana Luísa Caetano
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(m. 2015)​
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Porto

Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician.

Background

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He is a son of José António Lopes (Porto, Alvar, 10 September 1925 –), an Industrialist (son and paternal grandson of cattle dealers and maternal grandson and great-grandson of farmers and maternal grandson of an exposed daughter of unknown parents), and wife (m. Coimbra, Sé Nova, 11 December 1949) Maria Helena de Menezes Borges (Viseu, Abraveses, Aguieira, 15 April 1928 – 10 March 2015), a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and a High School Teacher, whose paternal grandfather was Spanish and whose mother was from the local Nobility.

Career

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He is a Licentiate in Medicine specialized in pediatrics from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.

He started his career as a medical doctor.

Affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and from 1997 to 2013 he was Mayor of the Municipal Chamber of Vila Nova de Gaia (in Greater Porto subregion), one of the most populated Portuguese municipalities.

He was leader of the Social Democratic Party between 12 October 2007 and 20 June 2008.[1] He was elected after Luís Marques Mendes and was succeeded by Manuela Ferreira Leite.

Meneses is considered a populist, his policies as mayor were equally populist and his victory over Marques Mendes is considered a victory of populism in the SDP,[2] as there was a clear difference between the positions of both, having Meneses a more politically correct and pro-people position in most matters, although with a sightly neoliberal stance on the health care system, and a liberal conservative position towards gay rights.[3]

Luis Filipe Menezes is considered as a modern politician.[4] He had the best score in the Municipality elections of October 2009.

Family

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He married Civilly at the 2nd Conservatory of the Civil Register of Porto on 20 March 1980 and Religiously in Porto, Bonfim, on 7 May 1980 to Maria Cândida Valanzuela de Sampayo Tavares (Porto, Ramalde, 7 November 1956), daughter of Amândio Gómez de Sampayo Tavares (Porto, Cedofeita, 26 December 1928 –), a Cathedratic Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, etc., and the Proprietor of the House of O Carballal in San Cristovo de Mourentán, Arbo, Pontevedra, Galicia, son of a Galician mother, and wife (m. 11 September 1952) María del Carmen Valanzuela y Simón (30 July 1923 –), a Galician paternal granddaughter of an unknown paternal grandfather, and had issue, three sons:

  • Luís Filipe Valanzuela Tavares de Menezes Lopes (born 20 December 1980)
  • Pedro Miguel Valanzuela Tavares de Menezes Lopes (born 16 June 1982)
  • João Francisco Valanzuela Tavares de Menezes Lopes (born 22 September 1993)

He married on 10 March 2015 lawyer Ana Luísa Caetano. They have one son:[5]

  • Afonso (born 8 March 2017)

Electoral history

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Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 1997

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Ballot: 14 December 1997
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Luís Filipe Menezes 64,044 46.7 6 +2
PS José Carvalheiras 56,757 41.4 5 –1
CDU – 10,151 7.4 0 –1
Other parties 1,878 1.4 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 4,245 3.1 – –
Turnout 137,075 61.78 11 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 1997[6]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2001

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Ballot: 16 December 2001
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes 78,549 59.9 8 +2
PS Jorge Strecht Ribeiro 37,078 28.3 3 –2
CDU – 8,192 6.3 0 ±0
BE – 1,570 4.9 0 new
PH – 601 4.9 0 new
Blank/Invalid ballots 4,460 3.4 – –
Turnout 131,109 57.69 11 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2001[7]

PSD leadership election, 2005

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Ballot: 9 April 2005
Candidate Votes %
Luís Marques Mendes 497 56.6
Luís Filipe Menezes 381 43.4
Turnout 878
Source: PSD Congress[8]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2005

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Ballot: 9 October 2005
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes 77,971 55.0 7 –1
PS Manuel Barbosa Ribeiro 39,657 28.0 3 ±0
CDU Ilda Figueiredo 11,781 8.3 1 +1
BE Alda Sousa 5,327 3.8 0 ±0
Other parties 1,486 1.1 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 5,616 4.0 – –
Turnout 141,838 60.73 11 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2005Autárquicas 2005[9][10]

PSD leadership election, 2007

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Main article: 2007 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election
Ballot: 28 September 2007
Candidate Votes %
Luís Filipe Menezes 21,101 53.6
Luís Marques Mendes 16,973 43.1
Blank/Invalid ballots 1,279 3.3
Turnout 39,353 62.42
Source: Diretas 2007[11]

Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2009

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Ballot: 11 October 2009
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD/CDS–PP Luís Filipe Menezes 92,486 62.0 8 +1
PS Joaquim Couto 37,790 25.3 3 ±0
CDU Ilda Figueiredo 9,398 6.3 0 –1
BE João Semedo 4,828 3.2 0 ±0
MPT Nuno Aldeia 993 0.7 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 3,733 2.5 – –
Turnout 149,228 59.71 11 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2009[12]

Porto City Council election, 2013

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Main article: 2013 Porto local election
Ballot: 29 September 2013
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
Ind. Rui Moreira 45,411 39.3 6 +6
PS Manuel Pizarro 26,237 22.7 3 –2
PSD/PPM/MPT Luís Filipe Menezes 24,366 21.1 3 –2
CDU Pedro Carvalho 8,539 7.4 1 ±0
BE José Soeiro 4,166 3.6 0 ±0
Other parties 1,877 1.6 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 5,102 4.4 – –
Turnout 115,698 52.60 13 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2013[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Luís Filipe Menezes, PSD".
  2. ^ "Meneses no PSD (Meneses in the SDP)".
  3. ^ "PSD: Mendes e Menezes em pseudo-debate (SPD: Mendes and Menezes in pseudo-debate)". (Portuguese)
  4. ^ "Confraria Laranja". (Portuguese)
  5. ^ "Luís Filipe Menezes só tem olhos para o filho". VIP. 15 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Autárquicas 1997" (PDF). Diário da República. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Autárquicas 2001" (PDF). Diário da República. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  8. ^ Luís Marques Mendes é o novo líder do PSD, RTP, 11 April 2005, retrieved 9 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Resultados AL 2005" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Auto Sorteio AL 2005" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  11. ^ Congressos e Eleições Diretas PPD/PSD, Social Democratic Party, retrieved 9 August 2024
  12. ^ "Autárquicas 2009". SGMAI. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  13. ^ "Autárquicas 2013". Retrieved 28 October 2024.
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