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.

His Excellency Aníbal Cavaco Silva GCC KGCIC GCSC GCMFRG GCON
File:Aníbal Cavaco Silva Senate of Poland 01.jpg Aníbal Cavaco Silva in 2008
40px 19th President of Portugal
In office 9 March 2006 – 9 March 2016
Prime Minister	José Sócrates Pedro Passos Coelho António Costa
Preceded by	Jorge Sampaio
Succeeded by	Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
114th Prime Minister of Portugal
In office 6 November 1985 – 28 October 1995
President	António Ramalho Eanes Mário Soares
Deputy	Eurico de Melo (1987-1990)
Preceded by	Mário Soares
Succeeded by	António Guterres
Minister of Finance
In office 10 January 1980 – 12 January 1981
President	António Ramalho Eanes
Prime Minister	Francisco de Sá Carneiro Diogo de Freitas do Amaral (acting)
Preceded by	António de Sousa Franco
Succeeded by	João Morais Leitão
Personal details
Born	Aníbal António Cavaco Silva 15 July 1939 (aged 86) Boliqueime, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Maria Cavaco Silva (1963-present)
Children	Patrícia Maria Alves Bruno Alves
Alma mater	Technical University of Lisbon University of York
Signature	Aníbal Cavaco Silva's signature
Website	Official website

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. 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.

Aníbal Cavaco Silva Media

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  Prime Minister Cavaco Silva meeting with U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1988

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  President Cavaco Silva meets the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, in 2007.

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  Sash of the Three Orders (Portugal)

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  PRT Order of Christ - Grand Cross BAR

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  Aníbal Cavaco Silva coat of arms as a knight of the Swedish Order of the Seraphim

• Foreign trips of Cavaco Silva.

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  Cavaco during his 2011 visit to the U.S.; pictured with John T. Chambers and Helder Antunes.

Other websites

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