José Manuel Rodrigues | |
Office: | President of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira |
Predecessor: | José Lino Tranquada Gomes |
Term Start2: | 13 October 1996 |
Term End2: | 14 October 2009 |
Birth Name: | José Manuel de Sousa Rodrigues |
Birth Date: | 13 July 1960 |
Birth Place: | Funchal, Madeira, Portugal |
Party: | CDS – People's Party |
Spouse: | Daniela Rodrigues |
Occupation: | Journalist • politician |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira |
Termstart1: | 17 September 2012 |
Term Start: | 15 October 2019 |
Office3: | President of the CDS – People's Party of Madeira |
Predecessor3: | Rui Barreto |
Term Start3: | 14 April 2024 |
Term Start4: | 1997 |
Term End4: | 2015 |
Successor4: | Rui Barreto |
Predecessor4: | Rui Gomes Vieira |
Term Start5: | 15 October 2009 |
Term End5: | 16 September 2012 |
Constituency5: | Madeira |
Office6: | Member of the Funchal City Council |
Term Start6: | 29 September 2013 |
Term End6: | 1 October 2017 |
José Manuel de Sousa Rodrigues (born 13 July 1960) is a Portuguese journalist and politician, from the CDS – People's Party. Since 2019, he is the President of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.[1]
He was successively elected as member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira since 1996. He was parliamentary leader several times.[2]
In 2009, he was elected as a member of the Assembly of the Republic, being re-elected in the early elections of June 2011. Here, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP Parliamentary group.[3]
In 2019, José Manuel Rodrigues was elected President of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira for the XII legislature (2019–2023). In 2023, he was re-elected President of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira for the XIII legislature.[4]