Pedro Passos Coelho Explained

Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
Pedro Passos Coelho
Office:Prime Minister of Portugal
President:Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Deputy:Paulo Portas
Term Start:21 June 2011
Term End:26 November 2015
Predecessor:José Sócrates
Successor:António Costa
Office1:President of the Social Democratic Party
Term Start1:9 April 2010
Term End1:16 February 2018
1Namedata1:Luís Marques Guedes
Miguel Relvas
José Matos Rosa
Predecessor1:Manuela Ferreira Leite
Successor1:Rui Rio
Office2:President of the Social Democratic Youth
Term Start2:March 1990
Term End2:December 1995
Predecessor2:Carlos Coelho
Successor2:Jorge Moreira da Silva
Term Start3:23 October 2015
Term End3:28 February 2018
Constituency3:Lisbon
Term Start4:20 June 2011
Term End4:22 October 2015
Constituency4:Vila Real
Term Start5:4 November 1991
Term End5:24 October 1999
Constituency5:Lisbon
Birth Name:Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho
Birth Date:1964 7, df=y
Birth Place:Coimbra, Portugal
Party:Social Democratic Party
Spouse:
    Children:3
    Education:Escola Secundária Camilo Castelo Branco
    Alma Mater:Lusíada University of Lisbon
    Signature:Accession Treaty 2011 Pedro Passos Coelho signature.svg

    Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho (pronounced as /pt/; born 24 July 1964) is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 117th prime minister of Portugal, in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.

    Passos Coelho started very early in politics and was the national leader of the youth branch of PSD. He led the XIX Governo Constitucional (19th Constitutional Government of Portugal) and the XX Governo Constitucional (20th Constitutional Government of Portugal) as head of government from 21 June 2011 to 26 November 2015. His term in office oversaw the application of the European troika bailout to Portugal (requested by the previous Prime Minister, José Sócrates of the Socialist Party) and was marked by a wave of widespread austerity in both Portugal and abroad.[1] [2] [3]

    Early years

    Pedro Passos Coelho was born in the parish of Sé Nova in Coimbra, Portugal, on 24 July 1964. He is the youngest son of a medical doctor, António Passos Coelho (born in Vale de Nogueiras, Vila Real, 31 May 1926 – 4 February 2019) and Maria Rodrigues Santos Mamede (born in Santana da Serra, Ourique, c. 1930), a nurse whom António married in 1955. He has an older sister, Maria Teresa Mamede Passos Coelho, a medical doctor,[4] and an older brother, Miguel Mamede Passos Coelho, who was born with cerebral palsy.[5] [6]

    He spent his childhood in Angola — then an overseas territory of Portugal after it has been colonized by the Portuguese since the 16th century — where his father practiced medicine. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974 and the independence of the territory as the People's Republic of Angola, he returned with his family to Europe and settled in Vila Real, in northern Portugal.

    He started very early in politics, as a 14-year-old boy, and had a long and prominent career in the youth branch of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the JSD, where he was a member of the National Council (1980–1982). As a young student, his academic interests, vocations and ambitions were directed towards a future career in medicine, to follow his father and older sister's steps, or instead mathematics. However, his largest ambition and vocation revolved around politics.[7]

    Education

    Passos Coelho moved to Africa at five years of age, and studied in basic schools of the cities of Silva Porto and later Luanda, in the former Portuguese territory of Angola, until the age of 10. His parents went to the Portuguese African territory of Angola to work there among the native rural populations who were plagued by tropical diseases such as tuberculosis. Firstly, Coelho studied in a nun-run Catholic school, then in the public school, and again in another Catholic school run by the Marist Brothers. Then, after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, and the dismantling of the Portuguese Overseas Empire in Africa, he returned to Europe, settling in his grandparents estate, in Vale de Nogueiras, near the city of Vila Real, Norte Region, Portugal. His father only rejoined the family in 1975, the year that Angola became an independent territory known as the People's Republic of Angola. To attend a secondary education institution in Vila Real, the Liceu Nacional Camilo Castelo-Branco (Camilo Castelo-Branco National High School), he moved to the city.[8]

    He worked for the youth branch of the PSD party preparing motions and documents, and these time-consuming tasks impacted his final high school grades. As his desire had been to pursue Medicine – as had his father and his sister – he reduced his political activities for a year to focus on studying (a school year which he had to repeat), aiming to improve his grades in order to reach the high marks needed to enroll at a medical school in Lisbon; during this time, when he was 18 years old, he also started working as a math teacher in Vila Pouca de Aguiar. His final high school average mark was of 16.8 (out of 20), which was 0.2 values short of what was necessary to be admitted into Medicine; therefore, he chose to study Mathematics, at Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa. He did not, however, finish his degree, having instead elected to work full-time in his party's youth branch – his new life in the capital city of Portugal having probably been a driving factor in this decision.[9] In 1987, he was elected vice-president of JSD, and president in 1991. The following year, aged 24 years old, his first child was born to Fátima Padinha, a former member of girl band Doce who he would later marry.[10]

    After dropping out of the University of Lisbon, he would enroll in 1999 in the Lusíada University, where he would obtain a degree in economics in 2001, when he was 37 years old. By then he had already been member of the parliament between 1991 and 1999, among other attributions (he worked in a public relations capacity during the late 1980s at Qimibro, a metals broker and trading firm founded by José Manuel Bento dos Santos and Eduardo Catroga,[11] after invitation of a cousin who worked there).[12]

    Political career

    Early career

    Starting very early in politics, he had a long career in the youth branch of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the JSD, where he was a member of the National Council (1980–1982) and chairman of the Political Committee (1990–1995). He was a Lisbon deputy to the Assembly of the Republic in the VI and VII Legislatures (1991–1999); he also joined the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO (1991–1995) and was vice chairman of the Parliamentary Group of PSD (1996–1999). In 1997, he ran for mayor of Amadora without success, but was elected municipal councillor (1997–2001). After he had been member of the parliament from 1991 to 1999, Passos Coelho became eligible by law to a life pension, however, he declined the offer.

    He was awarded a degree in economics by Lusíada University (Lisbon) when he was 37 (2001). He became a consultant with Tecnoformas (2000–2004), collaborator of LDN Consultants (2001–2004), Director of the Training Department and coordinator of the Program of Seminars URBE – Núcleos Urbanos de Pesquisa e Intervenção (2003–2004). He joined the company Fomentinvest[13] as a CFO (2004–2006) working with Ângelo Correia, chairman of Fomentinvest and also a noted member of PSD. Correia, an experienced member of PSD, is a close friend of Passos Coelho, both inside their party and corporate governance careers, and is considered Passos Coelho's political mentor.[14] [15] Passos Coelho became a member of the Executive (in 2007), accumulating the functions of chairman of the Board of the HLCTejo (2007–2009).

    He was vice-president of PSD during the leadership of Luís Marques Mendes (2005–2006) and has also been president of the Municipal Assembly of Vila Real Municipality since 2005; he was a presidential candidate for PSD in May 2008, where he proposed for the first time a programmatic review of the party's orientation. Defeated by Manuela Ferreira Leite, he founded, with a group of his supporters, the think-tank Construir Ideias (Building Ideas). On 21 January 2010, his book Mudar ("To Change") was published, and he was again candidate for the leadership of PSD for the direct elections in March 2010; he was elected president of PSD on 26 March 2010.

    By 2010, in a context of sovereign default, he helped defeat the Socialist government under the leadership of José Sócrates when it tried to adopt a package of austerity measures to maintain economic stability, leading to the resignation of the prime minister on 23 March 2011, and the general election of 5 June 2011.[16]

    Prime minister of Portugal

    On 5 June 2011, following the 2011 Portuguese legislative election, Passos Coelho was elected Prime Minister of Portugal.[17] He achieved a historical win for his political party PSD, defeating José Sócrates from the Socialist Party (PS). Through a coalition with CDS-PP, Passos Coelho and PSD were in position to form a right-wing majority in the Portuguese Parliament. Immediately after the election, he started conversations with Christian-Democratic President Paulo Portas to form the coalition.

    Overview

    Passos Coelho's political program was considered by the Portuguese left (Socialist Party (PS) and its communist political allies), which had governed the country during most of the time until the financial collapse of 2010, as strictly aligned with economic liberalism,[18] and included a firm intention to accomplish the European Union/IMF-led rescue plan for Portugal's sovereign debt crisis. The rescue plan included widespread tax increases and reforms aimed at better efficiency and rationalized resource allocation in the public sector, to reduce the number of unnecessary civil servants and chronic public sector's overcapacity.[19] It also included the privatization of at least one channel of the public radio and television RTP network,[20] the Caixa Geral de Depósitos' insurance operations (including Fidelidade), and some parts of the National Service of Health.[21] [22]

    His coalition partner Paulo Portas of CDS-PP, publicly expressed his disapproval of some of Passos Coelho's proposals.[23] Passos Coelho entered office as a moderate social conservative, with a mixed record on abortion (he voted no in the 1998 referendum and yes in the following in 2007), while opposing euthanasia[24] and same-sex marriage, supporting same-sex civil unions instead.[25] It was not certain if he would try to overrule the previous José Sócrates-led Socialist government laws that allowed abortion until 10 weeks and same-sex marriage in Portugal. During his campaign, he admitted the re-evaluation of the current abortion law[26] approved in 2007, after a referendum, that allowed it under any circumstance until 10 weeks of pregnancy. The law was deemed unconstitutional by 6 of the 13 judge members of the Portuguese Constitutional Court.[27]

    Other creations of the previous cabinets led by former Prime Minister José Sócrates were criticized by Passos Coelho, including the state-sponsored Novas Oportunidades educational qualification program for unschooled adults, which was dubbed a fraud due to alleged low standards of intellectual rigor and academic integrity.[28] Pedro Passos Coelho and his government cabinet launched the foundations of the Banco Português de Fomento group and established Portugal's state-owned venture capital and private equity investing arm Portugal Ventures.[29]

    Passos Coelho's cabinet

    From 21 June 2011 to 26 November 2015, Passos Coelho led the XIX Governo Constitucional (19th Constitutional Government) and the XX Governo Constitucional (20th Constitutional Government). In the fifth vote of confidence the government faced, as called by Os Verdes, the government was scheduled to win a vote despite being opposed by the Communists, Left Bloc and Socialists (if it failed the government would not be able to have another vote). Despite attempts to form a national unity government, Socialist party whip Carlos Zorrinho said that the move was not with the government but that all parties were available for a possible new government. The motion by Os Verdes was initiated on 14 July 2013 during a state of the nation debate. Coelho said that the vote was "very welcome" and would serve as a vote of confidence.[30]

    Membership

    In July 2013, Paulo Portas and Vítor Gaspar resigned from the cabinet over the country's austerity programme. Though Coelho accepted it, he said that the government would continue with the measures and would seek to heal the rift with his coalition partners.[31] Portas eventually retracted his resignation, and became deputy prime minister.

    MinistryIncumbentTerm
    Deputy Prime MinisterPaulo Portas24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
    FinanceVítor Gaspar21 June 2011 – 1 July 2013
    Maria Luís Albuquerque1 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
    Foreign AffairsPaulo Portas21 June 2011 – 24 July 2013
    Rui Machete24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
    National DefenceJosé Pedro Aguiar Branco21 June 2011 – 30 October 2015
    Internal AdministrationMiguel Macedo21 June 2011 – 19 November 2014
    Anabela Rodrigues19 November 2014 – 30 October 2015
    José Calvão da Silva30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    JusticePaula Teixeira da Cruz21 June 2011 – 30 October 2015
    Fernando Negrão30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Presidency and of Parliamentary AffairsMiguel Relvas21 June 2011 – 13 April 2013
    13 April 2013 – 30 October 2015
    30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    EconomyÁlvaro Santos Pereira21 June 2011 – 24 July 2013
    24 July 2013 – 30 October 2015
    30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Agriculture and SeaAssunção Cristas21 June 2011 – 26 November 2015
    Environment, Spatial Planning and EnergyJorge Moreira da Silva24 July 2013 – 26 November 2015
    HealthPaulo Macedo21 June 2011 – 30 October 2015
    30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Education and ScienceNuno Crato21 June 2011 – 30 October 2015
    30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Solidarity, Employment and Social SecurityPedro Mota Soares21 June 2011 – 26 November 2015
    Regional DevelopmentMiguel Poiares Maduro13 April 2013 – 30 October 2015
    30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Administrative ModernizationRui Medeiros30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
    Culture, Equality and CitizenshipTeresa Morais30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015

    Major policies

    To accomplish the European Union/IMF-led rescue plan for Portugal's sovereign debt crisis, in July and August 2011, his government announced it was going to cut on state spending and increase austerity measures, including additional tax increases, but it will also have a social emergency package to help the poorest citizens. As time went on it became increasingly clear that a series of supplementary measures would be taken during the course of the year as a means to restrain an out-of-control budget deficit. These included sharp cuts in spending on state-run healthcare, education and social security systems. His cabinet enforced reforms of the local administration to save money by avoiding unnecessary resource allocation and redundancy. This included extinguishing the 18 Civil Governments (Governo Civil) located across the country[32] and a large number of parishes.[33] According to the Instituto Nacional de Estatística, there were 4,261 parishes in Portugal in 2006. The reform implemented according to Law 11-A/2013 of 28 January 2013, which defined the reorganization of the civil parishes, reduced the number of parishes to 3,091. Nevertheless, due to Portugal's legal constraints[34] avoiding planned job cuts like those made across several developed countries at the time to fight overspending and overstaffing at municipality level,[35] [36] [37] [38] the 2013 mergers eventually increased the spending with the parishes.[39]

    The Portuguese Constitutional Court, with the praise of most unions and opposition party leaders, eventually rejected the equivalent to 20% of the government austerity policies proposed by Passos Coelho and his cabinet.[47] Most of the rejected proposals were related with labor market flexibility, public pensions' sustainability, civil servants' privileges and job cuts in the civil service.[48] [49] [50]

    Loss of power

    In the 2015 Portuguese legislative election, the government lost its parliamentary majority despite winning the most seats.[51] Passos Coelho lost a vote of rejection against his government weeks later and resigned as Prime Minister. He continued leading the PSD in opposition until a poor performance in the 2017 Portuguese local elections prompted him to announce his resignation that would take place once a new leader was selected in December.[52]

    Criticism

    During his first year in cabinet, it became clear that the deep economic and financial crisis of Portugal would prompt several policy changes and increasing dissent over the cabinet's judgement. After an inaugural speech in which he promised, in the long run, to stabilize the economy, promote financial growth, employment and protect the ones who needed the most, he moved on to adopt deep austerity measures that, on the view of his detractors, within the first year of government, led to the exact opposite. High paying jobs and pensions were slashed while the lower ones were less affected.[53] In addition, his government had earlier adopted a promoting stance on emigration, often advising the growing number of young unemployed people to leave the country. On 15 September 2012, Passos Coelho and his coalition government faced one of the biggest civil protests in the history of Portuguese democracy, where demands were made for solutions to be put in place. On 21 September 2012, while the Prime Minister and members of the cabinet were meeting with President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, a large number of citizens protested in front of the presidential house, the Belém Palace, some throwing bottles at security forces.[54]

    Honours

    Electoral history

    Amadora City Council election, 1997

    |-! colspan="2" | Party! Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"| Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/−|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PS| align=left | Joaquim Raposo || 28,127 || 33.9 || 4 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDU| align=left |Orlando de Almeida || 24,065 || 29.0 || 4 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PSD| align=left |Pedro Passos Coelho || 22,223 || 26.8 || 3 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDS–PP| align=left |– || 2,864 || 3.5 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:#E2062C;"|| align="left"| UDP| align=left |– || 1,094 || 1.3 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| PCTP/MRPP| align=left |– || 972 || 1.2 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:red;"|| align="left"| PSR| align=left |– || 604 || 0.7 || 0 || ±0|-| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 3,082 || 3.7 || – || –|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout| 83,031 || 51.37 || 11 || ±0|-| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 1997[56] |}

    PSD leadership election, 2008

    See main article: 2008 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Manuela Ferreira Leite| align=right | 17,278| align=right | 37.9|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Pedro Passos Coelho| align=right | 14,160| align=right | 31.1|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Pedro Santana Lopes| align=right | 13,495| align=right | 29.6|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Patinha Antão| align=right | 308| align=right | 0.7|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 351| align=right | 0.8|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right| 45,592| align=right | 59.13|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Resultados|}

    PSD leadership election, 2010

    See main article: 2010 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Pedro Passos Coelho| align=right | 31,671| align=right | 61.2|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Paulo Rangel| align=right | 17,821| align=right | 34.4|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | José Pedro Aguiar Branco| align=right | 1,769| align=right | 3.4|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Castanheira Barros| align=right | 138| align=right | 0.3|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 349| align=right | 0.7|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 51,748| align=right | 66.26|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Resultados[57] |}

    Legislative election, 2011

    See main article: 2011 Portuguese legislative election. |-! colspan="2" | Party! Candidate! Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/−|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PSD| align=left |Pedro Passos Coelho || 2,159,181 || 38.7 || 108 || style="color:green;"| +27|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PS| align=left |José Sócrates || 1,566,347 || 28.0 || 74 || style="color:red;"| –23|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDS–PP| align=left |Paulo Portas || 653,888 || 11.7 || 24 || style="color:green;"| +3|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDU| align=left |Jerónimo de Sousa || 441,147 || 7.9 || 16 || style="color:green;"| +1|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| BE| align=left |Francisco Louçã || 288,923 || 5.2 || 8 || style="color:red;"| –8|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| PCTP/MRPP| align=left |Garcia Pereira || 62,610 || 1.1 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:teal;"|| align="left"| PAN| align=left |Paulo Borges || 57,995 || 1.0 || 0 || new|-| style="background:white;"|| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties| 126,521 || 2.3 || 0 || ±0|-| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 228,017 || 4.1 || – || –|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout| 5,585,054 || 58.03 || 230 || ±0|-| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[58] |}

    Legislative election, 2015

    See main article: 2015 Portuguese legislative election. |-! colspan="2" | Party! Candidate! Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/−|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PàF| align=left |Pedro Passos Coelho || 2,085,465 || 38.6 || 107 || style="color:red;"| –25|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PS| align=left |António Costa || 1,747,730 || 32.3 || 86 || style="color:green;"| +12|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| BE| align=left |Catarina Martins || 550,945 || 10.2 || 19 || style="color:green;"| +11|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDU| align=left |Jerónimo de Sousa || 445,901 || 8.3 || 17 || style="color:green;"| +1|-| style="background:teal;"|| align="left"| PAN| align=left |André Silva || 75,170 || 1.4 || 1 || style="color:green;"| +1|-| style="background:black;"|| align="left"| PDR| align=left |Marinho e Pinto || 61,920 || 1.1 || 0 || new|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| PCTP/MRPP| align=left |Garcia Pereira || 60,045 || 1.1 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:white;"|| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties| 178,937 || 3.3 || 0 || ±0|-| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 201,979 || 3.7 || – || –|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout| 5,408,092 || 55.84 || 230 || ±0|-| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Diário da República[59] |}

    Personal life

    Passos Coelho lives in Massamá, Greater Lisbon. He was married to Fátima Padinha, a former singer in the girl band Doce, with whom he has two daughters, Joana Padinha Passos Coelho (born 1988) and Catarina Padinha Passos Coelho (born 1993). His second marriage was to Laura Ferreira, a physiotherapy technician, born in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau, West Africa),[60] with whom he has one daughter, Júlia Ferreira Passos Coelho (born 2007). Laura Ferreira had been fighting cancer and died on 25 February 2020.[61] [62] [63]

    Apart from his native Portuguese, he can also speak some French and English. After his tenure as Prime Minister of Portugal, he became a teacher at both the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (University of Lisbon) and the Lusíada University.

    Pedro Passos Coelho studied opera singing, is baritone and even signed up for a Filipe La Féria casting.[64]

    See also

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. https://www.bbc.com/news/10162176 EU austerity drive country by country
    2. News: Zumbrun. Josh. 2014-11-07. The Federal Government Now Employs the Fewest People Since 1966. en-US. Wall Street Journal. 2021-11-04. 0099-9660.
    3. Web site: Hutchens. Gareth. 2015-01-04. Why this obsession with cutting public service jobs?. 2021-11-04. The Sydney Morning Herald. en.
    4. Zita Seabra, Três razões para apoiar Pedro Passos Coelho, Jornal de Notícias (21 March 2010)
    5. Pedro Passos Coelho – Tragédia na Família, TV Guia (1 June 2011)
    6. Perfil: Passos Coelho, um "liberal" na política desde a adolescência, Diário de Notícias (15 June 2011)
    7. PEDRO PASSOS COELHO (Portuguese Government) https://www.historico.portugal.gov.pt/pt/o-governo/arquivo-historico/governos-constitucionais/gc20/primeiro-ministro/pm/conheca-a-equipa/primeiro-ministro/pedro-passos-coelho.aspx
    8. Pedro Passos Coelho. Um miúdo sério à solta no PSD, i online (3 April 2010)
    9. Como Passos se preparou para ser primeiro-ministro (Expresso) https://expresso.pt/politica/como-passos-se-preparou-para-ser-primeiro-ministro=f890724
    10. Racional, gestor, tímido, barítono: Pedro Passos Coelho é um líder natural, "Aos 21 anos, foi viver com uma cantora das Doce, Fátima Padinha, por quem estava apaixonado, sem ter casado com ela. Ainda sem estar casado, teve a primeira filha", Público (17 June 2011)
    11. Web site: Archived copy . 16 June 2011 . dead . http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20080312083107/http%3A//www.josedemello.pt/gjm_press_05.asp?lang%3Dpt%26empresa%3D18%26noticia%3D7142 . 12 March 2008 .
    12. Web site: Cidade Lusa: Biografia de Pedro Passos Coelho. Dis Aliter. Visum. Cidadelusa.blogspot.com. 13 October 2017.
    13. Web site: Fomentinvest SGPS. Fomentinvest.com. 13 October 2017.
    14. L'austérité n'attend point le nombre d'années, Courrier International (7 June 2011)
    15. Ângelo Correia apoia Passos Coelho para liderar PSD, Público (28 May 2008)
    16. Web site: Prime Minister Jose Socrates resigns - Portugal . 6 September 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121018134226/http://www.demotix.com/news/633910/prime-minister-jose-socrates-resigns-portugal . 18 October 2012 .
    17. Web site: Pedro Passos Coelho set for big election win as Portugal swings right. Giles. Tremlett. agencies. 5 June 2011. 13 October 2017. The Guardian.
    18. Quem tem medo de Passos Coelho? (Observador) https://observador.pt/opiniao/quem-tem-medo-de-passos-coelho/
    19. Administração Pública obrigada a emagrecer 1% ao ano, Destak.pt (21 June 2011). Archived from the original on 28 September 2011
    20. Passos Coelho explica a decisão de adiar a privatização da RTP (RTP) https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/passos-coelho-explica-a-decisao-de-adiar-a-privatizacao-da-rtp_v623137
    21. O que ganhamos com as privatizações? (Observador) https://observador.pt/especiais/dinheiro-das-privatizacoes/
    22. Passos Coelho surpreendido com movimentos contra privatização do SNS e da RTP (RTP) https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/passos-coelho-surpreendido-com-movimentos-contra-privatizacao-do-sns-e-da-rtp_a376318
    23. Paulo Portas: De ministro demissionário “irrevogável” a vice de Pedro Passos Coelho (Jornal de Negócios) https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/politica/detalhe/paulo_portas_de_ministro_demissionario_irrevogavel_a_vice_de_pedro_passos_coelho
    24. Web site: Coelho . Pedro Passos . Mais do que uma questão de consciência . . 22 October 2021.
    25. Passos Coelho a favor da união civil entre homossexuais (Lux.pt) https://www.lux.iol.pt/politica/psd/passos-coelho-a-favor-da-uniao-civil-entre-homossexuais
    26. Pedro Passos Coelho Admits Re-evaluation of the Current Abortion Law, Diário de Notícias, 26 May 2011
    27. Web site: 2006-11-16 . Aprovada pergunta para referendo sobre aborto . 2024-04-13 . Aprovada pergunta para referendo sobre aborto . pt.
    28. Passos Coelho promete reformular "escândalo" das Novas Oportunidades, Jornal de Negócios (16 May 2011)
    29. A saga do Banco de Fomento (Observador) https://observador.pt/opiniao/a-saga-do-banco-de-fomento/
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