Carlos João Pereira (Funchal, 30 August 1969) is a Portuguese politician and economist. He is currently a member of the Portuguese Parliament and vice-president of the Socialist Party's parliamentary group. He was also a member of parliament and parliamentary leader of the PS in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.[1][2]
Carlos Pereira | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 29 January 2018 | |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira | |
| In office 2 November 2017 – January 2018 | |
| President of the Socialist Party – Madeira | |
| In office 27 June 2015 – 3 February 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Carlos João Pereira 30 August 1969 Funchal, Portugal |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Education | Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão |
| Occupation | Economist |
Biography
editHe has a degree in economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG).[3] He has two postgraduate degrees, one in Rural Sociology (Instituto Superiro de Agronomia) and the other in Tourism Management (Universidade da Madeira).[4]
He was director of Sociedade de Desenvolvimento da Madeira, the company that manages the Madeira Free Trade Zone, secretary-general of the Madeira Chamber of Commerce and Industry, financial director and deputy director of the Madeira Science and Technology Center, visiting professor at the University of Madeira between 1995 and 2008 and founder and first president of the regional branch of the Order of Economists.[3]
In May 2015, he published the book A Herança, a work about how Alberto João Jardim, former president of the Regional Government of Madeira, hid the regional debt of more than 6.3 billion euros.[5][6]
He is an independent consultant to the European Commission for Horizon 2020, a European Union funding framework program for research and innovation.[4]
Caixa Geral de Depósitos forgave a debt of 66,000 euros owed by Carlos Pereira, who was the rapporteur of a commission of inquiry into the bank.
Political career
editPereira ran, still without a party affiliation, as the Socialist Party's (PS) front-runner for Funchal City Council in 2005, against Miguel Albuquerque, the Social Democratic Party's incumbent and future president of Madeira's regional government.[7] The PS came second and Pereira was elected as a city councillor, ending his term prematurely in 2007, after a court ruling, for failing to submit his tax return on time.[8]
After the PS's poor result in the regional elections in March 2015, Victor Freitas, then regional president of the party, resigned and Carlos Pereira was the only candidate to succeed him.[9] At the beginning of 2018, he lost the PS's regional leadership to Emanuel Câmara, mayor of Porto Moniz, who promised to take independent Paulo Cafôfo, then mayor of Funchal, as his frontrunner in the 2019 regional elections.[10][11]
Regional Assembly
editHe was elected to the Madeira Regional Legislative Assembly (ALRAM) in the elections of 2007, 2011 – he was the frontrunner that year – and 2015 – in which he was the second candidate.[12][13] He was president of the PS-Madeira parliamentary group.[4] He suspended his mandate in the regional parliament after being elected to the Assembly of the Republic (AR) in 2015. He returned to the ALRAM between the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, this time temporarily suspending his mandate in the AR in order to attend the vote on a motion of censure against Miguel Albuquerque's government.[14]
Parliament
editIn October 2015, he was elected to the RA for the Madeira constituency, suspending his mandate as a regional MP.[15] In Parliament, he is one of the vice-presidents of the PS parliamentary group and belongs to the European Affairs, Economy, Innovation and Public Works and Inquiry into the Recapitalization of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and the Management of the Bank committees and is an alternate member of the National Defence Committee.[4]
In April 2018, Pereira was one of the island MPs involved in a controversy over the alleged misuse of public subsidies, as they used two subsidies for the same purpose. These MPs received a travel allowance to their fiscal address (calculated according to the distance between the Parliament and their place of residence), but they also received an allowance granted to all islanders, which covers part of the cost of air travel between the archipelagos and mainland Portugal.[16][17]
He will once again be the PS candidate for the Madeira constituency in the 2019 legislative elections.[18]
References
edit- ^ Nóbrega, Tolentino de (2014-05-28). "Líder parlamentar do PS na Madeira apoia candidatura de António Costa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Carlos Pereira é o unico candidato à presidência do PS-Madeira". diariodigital.sapo.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2015-08-25. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b "Expresso | Carlos Pereira, o corredor de fundo que quer agarrar o PS". expresso.sapo.pt (in Portuguese). 2015-10-16. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ a b c d "Biografia". www.parlamento.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ ""Herança" de Carlos Pereira | Tribuna da Madeira". tribunadamadeira.pt (in Portuguese). 2015-07-04. Archived from the original on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Carlos Pereira partilha 'A Herança' | DNOTICIAS.PT". dnoticias.pt (in Portuguese). 2015-07-04. Archived from the original on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Autárquicas ao rubro na Madeira". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2005-06-21. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de (2007-09-20). "Vereador do PS-M na Câmara do Funchal perde mandato por não apresentar declaração de rendimentos no TC". Vereador do PS-M na Câmara do Funchal perde mandato por não apresentar declaração de rendimentos no TC (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "A vez de Carlos Pereira". dnoticias.pt (in Portuguese). 2016-10-22. Archived from the original on 2016-10-22. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Correia, Ana Luísa. "Emanuel Câmara venceu com 57% dos votos e já pensa na vitória nas Regionais de 2019". DNOTICIAS.PT (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Berenguer, Márcio (2018-02-12). "Emanuel Câmara: quem é o homem que ganhou o PS-Madeira?". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Carlos Pereira, o corredor de fundo que quer agarrar o PS". Jornal Expresso (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Carlos Pereira será o novo líder do PS-Madeira". Jornal SOL (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ "Líder do PS-Madeira suspende mandato para defender moção de censura ao Governo". TSF Rádio Notícias (in European Portuguese). 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Berenguer, Márcio (2015-07-20). "Carlos Pereira encabeça lista renovada do PS-Madeira à Assembleia". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ PÚBLICO (2018-04-14). "Deputados das ilhas recebem duas vezes por viagens que não pagam". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.
- ^ Lacerda, Sofia. "EXPRESSO REVELA QUE DEPUTADOS DA MADEIRA SÃO REEMBOLSADOS POR VIAGENS QUE NÃO PAGAM". jm-madeira.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Berenguer, Márcio (2019-07-20). "Carlos Pereira é a (improvável) escolha do PS-Madeira para São Bento". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-09-04.