Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC (born 15 July 1939) served as the 19th President of Portugal. He served from 2006 to 2016. 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).
Silva was born on 15 July 1939 in Boliqueime, Portugal.[1] He studied at Technical University of Lisbon and at the University of York. Silva has been married to Maria Cavaco Silva since 1963. They have two children. He lived in Belém Palace.[2]
Aníbal Cavaco Silva Media
Prime Minister Cavaco Silva meeting with U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1988
President Cavaco Silva meets the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, in 2007.
PRT Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword - Grand Collar
PRT Order of Prince Henry - Grand Collar BAR
PRT Order of Liberty - Grand Collar BAR
Sash of the Three Orders (Portugal)
PRT Order of Christ - Grand Cross BAR
Aníbal Cavaco Silva coat of arms as a knight of the Swedish Order of the Seraphim
Foreign trips of Cavaco Silva.
Cavaco during his 2011 visit to the U.S.; pictured with John T. Chambers and Helder Antunes.
References
- ↑ (in Portuguese) Perfil de Cavaco Silva[dead link] (in Portuguese)
- ↑ Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GeneAll.net
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