Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈnibaɫ kɐˈvaku ˈsiɫvɐ]; born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve on 15 July 1939), is the President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006. 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 S... more

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva, GCC (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈnibaɫ kɐˈvaku ˈsiɫvɐ]; born in Boliqueime, Loulé, Algarve on 15 July 1939), is the President of the Portuguese Republic, having won the Portuguese presidential election on 22 January 2006. Cavaco Silva was sworn in on 9 March 2006. 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). The son of Teodoro Gonçalves Silva (Loulé, Boliqueime, Maritenda, 30 August, 1912 - 30 September, 2007) and wife Maria do Nascimento Cavaco (Loulé, Boliqueime, Maritenda, 27 December, 1912 -), Aníbal Cavaco Silva was a undistinguished student at school. As a 10-year-old, he flunked at the 3rd grade of the... less