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About Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is most recognized for guiding Portugal into the European Union, liberalizing the Portuguese economy and improving infrastructures across the country. As prime minister, his style and policies came to be known as Cavacoism.
Everything about Aníbal Cavaco Silva →- Occupation
- economist, politician, university teacher
- Position held
- member of the Assembly of the Republic, President of Portugal, Prime Minister of Portugal, minister for Finance
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Born
- July 15, 1939
- Website
- http://www.gabinetesacramento.pt/