Luís Marques Mendes


Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes, GCIH is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and a former Leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Background

He is a son of António Marques Mendes and wife Maria Isabel Gonçalves.

Career

He is a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
He started his career as a lawyer.
As a member of the Social Democratic Party he became Secretary of State and Spokesman of the Government of Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva. He has also been a Deputy to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
He was elected the President of his Party in 2005 after Pedro Santana Lopes and was succeeded in September 2007 by Luís Filipe Menezes.
He is also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State, elected by the Assembly of the Republic.

Family

He married in Guimarães, Vermil, on 24 April 1982, to Rosa Sofia Pinto Martins Salazar, born in Guimarães, Vermil, on 8 May 1957, a Licentiate in Modern Literatures and Languages, daughter of António Martins Fernandes Salazar, an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife Berta da Silva Pinto, and paternal granddaughter of José Fernandes Salazar, an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife Rosa Correia da Silva Martins. The couple has three children:

PSD leadership election, 2006

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PSD leadership election, 2007

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