José Sócrates

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José Sócrates is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese politician
human
politician
activeInPeriod 21st century
late 20th century
branchOfGovernment executive branch of Portugal
continentOfActivity Europe
continentOfCitizenship Europe
countryOfCitizenship Portugal
familyName Sócrates
fieldOfWork politics
public administration
gender male
givenName José
governmentTypeLed Portuguese Republic
hasOccupation civil engineer
political leader
hasRole head of government of Portugal
party leader
headOfGovernmentOf Portugal
ideologyAssociatedWith Third Way politics
isFrom Portugal
isSubjectOf Portuguese political commentary
media coverage in Portugal
languageSpoken Portuguese
memberOf Socialist Party (Portugal)
name José Sócrates
nationality Portuguese
notableFor being a prominent figure in Portuguese centre-left politics in the 2000s
implementing austerity measures in Portugal
leading the Socialist Party to victory in the 2005 Portuguese legislative election
negotiating an international bailout for Portugal in 2011
serving as Prime Minister during the European sovereign debt crisis
officeEndTime 2011
officeStartTime 2005
partyRole Secretary-General of the Socialist Party (Portugal)
politicalAlignment centre-left politics
social democracy
positionHeld Prime Minister of Portugal
predecessor Pedro Santana Lopes
regionOfActivity Portugal
residence Portugal
successor Pedro Passos Coelho
wasLeaderOf Socialist Party (Portugal)
workLocation Lisbon


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