João Soares (politician)
{{short description|Portuguese politician (born 1949)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = João Soares
| image = João Soares Senate of Poland.JPG
| office = Minister of Culture
| term_start = 26 November 2015
| term_end = 8 April 2016
| primeminister = António Costa
| predecessor = Teresa Morais
| successor = Luís Filipe Castro Mendes
| office2 = Mayor of Lisbon
| term_start2 = 15 November 1995
| term_end2 = 23 January 2002
| predecessor2 = Jorge Sampaio
| successor2 = Pedro Santana Lopes
| birth_name = João Barroso Soares
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|8|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = Lisbon
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Socialist Party
| religion =
| profession = Editor{{Cite web|url=https://www.parlamento.pt:443/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=1814|title=Biografia|website=www.parlamento.pt}}
| occupation = Politician
| spouse = {{Marriage|Maria Olímpia|||reason=divorced}}
Annick Burhenne
| children = 5
| alma_mater = University of Lisbon
| signature =
| website =
| father = Mário Soares
| mother = Maria Barroso
| office3 = {{MP PT}}
| term_start3 = 4 April 2002
| term_end3 = 24 October 2019
| term_start4 = 19 July 1987
| term_end4 = 6 October 1991
| constituency4 = Lisbon
| constituency3 = Lisbon (2002–2009)
Faro (2009–2015)
Lisbon (2015–2019)
}}
João Barroso Soares (born 29 August 1949 in São Cristóvão e São Lourenço, Lisbon) is a Portuguese editor{{Cite web|url=https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=1814|title=Biografia|website=www.parlamento.pt|access-date=2019-09-25}} and Socialist Party politician, who was President of the Municipality of Lisbon from 1995 to 2002.
He is the son of the former Portuguese Prime Minister and President, Mário Soares, and the actress Maria Barroso. He was married to Maria Olímpia Soares (b. 1951), daughter of António Domingos de Oliveira Soares and wife Clotilde Soares, by whom he had three children: Maria Inês (b. 1976), Maria Mafalda (b. 1981) and Mário Alberto (b. 1987). Later divorced, he married the Belgian Annick Burhenne, by whom he had a son Jonas (b. 2003), named after Jonas Savimbi, of whom João Soares is an admirer, and a daughter Lilah (b. 2007).
He was member of the European Parliament{{cite web|title=João SOARES|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=2160|work=Your MEPs|publisher=European Parliament|accessdate=14 February 2011}} and of the Portuguese State Council.
In 2004, he lost to Manuel Alegre and José Sócrates a bid for the party leadership, and in October 2005 lost to Fernando Seara the election for President of the Municipality of Sintra. He also lost the election for president of the Municipality of Lisbon to Pedro Santana Lopes, in 2001, being the first mayor of Lisboa to lose a reelection.
In July 2008 he was elected President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. He was reelected for another one-year term in July 2009.
During the 2008 and 2012 United States elections, he acted as the special coordinator for the OSCE International Observation Misson.{{cite news
|title= International Observers Blocked From Polls
|author= Donovan Slack |url= http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/11/international-observers-blocked-from-polls-in-nine-148694.html|newspaper= Politico.com
|date= 6 November 2012
| quote = Special coordinator for the OSCE mission, Joao Soares, a member of the Portuguese parliament, will issue the official post-election statement on the U.S. election on Thursday.
}}
In April 2016, in a Facebook post, João Soares, Minister of Culture, said that he looked forward to landing "salutary blows" on two newspaper columnists. The post attracted hundreds of critical comments from the public, opposition politicians and journalists. Mr Soares, resigned after Prime Minister António Costa reprimanded him and issued a public apology. He initially defended his comments as a response to an "insulting personal attack", but later apologised.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36002281|title=Portugal minister Soares quits after slap threat to journalists|date=8 April 2016|via=www.bbc.com}}
Electoral history
=Lisbon City Council election, 1997=
{{Main article|1997 Lisbon local election}}
{{election table|title=Ballot: 14 December 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:magenta;"|
| align=left | João Soares || 165,072 || 51.9 || 10 || style="color:red;"| –1
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Portugal Ahead}};"|
| align=left |Ferreira do Amaral || 124,866 || 39.3 || 7 || style="color:green;"| +1
|-
| style="background:darkred;"|
| align=left |Francisco Louçã || 8,315 || 2.6 || 0 || new
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers / Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat}};"|
| align="left"| PCTP/MRPP
| align=left |– || 6,070 || 1.9 || 0 || ±0
|-
| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots
| 13,799 || 4.3 || – || –
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout
| 318,102 || 48.29 || 17 || ±0
|-
| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 1997{{cite web |url=https://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/resultados_al_1997_0.pdf|title=Diário da República Mapa Oficial |work=Comissão Nacional de Eleições |date=2 March 1998|access-date=9 August 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.publico.pt/2017/09/06/local/noticia/ha-muito-muito-tempo-era-lisboa-outra-cidade-1784348|title=Há muito, muito tempo, era Lisboa outra cidade... |work=Público |date=6 September 2017|access-date=9 August 2024}}
|}
=Lisbon City Council election, 2001=
{{Main article|2001 Lisbon local election}}
{{election table|title=Ballot: 16 December 2001}}
|-
! 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:{{party color|Social Democratic Party (Portugal)}};"|
| align=left |Pedro Santana Lopes || 131,094 || 42.1 || 8 || style="color:green;"| +1
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}};"|
| align=left | João Soares || 129,368 || 41.5 || 8 || style="color:red;"| –2
|-
| style="background:{{party color|CDS – People's Party}};"|
| align="left"| CDS–PP
| align=left |Paulo Portas || 23,637 || 7.6 || 1 || ±0
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}};"|
| align="left"| BE
| align=left |Miguel Portas || 11,899 || 3.8 || 0 || new
|-
| style="background:white;"|
| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties
| 5,766 || 1.9 || 0 || ±0
|-
| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots
| 9,718 || 3.1 || – || –
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout
| 311,482 || 54.83 || 17 || ±0
|-
| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 2001{{cite web |url=https://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/resultados_al_2001.pdf |title=Diário da República Mapa Oficial |work=Comissão Nacional de Eleições |date=27 March 2002|access-date=4 August 2024}}
|}
=PS leadership election, 2004=
{{Main article|2004 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election}}
{{election table|title=Ballot: 25 and 26 September 2004}}
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes
! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}|
| align=left | José Sócrates
| align=right | 18,432
| align=right | 78.6
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}|
| align=left | Manuel Alegre
| align=right | 3,903
| align=right | 16.7
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}}|
| align=left | João Soares
| align=right | 927
| align=right | 4.0
|-
| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots
| align=right | 175
| align=right | 0.7
|-
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"
| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
| align=right | 23,437
| align=center |
|-
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Resultados{{cite web |url=https://www.cmjornal.pt/politica/detalhe/socrates-novo-lider-indiscutivel |title=Sócrates, novo líder indiscutível |work=Correio da Manhã |date=26 September 2004 |access-date=5 August 2024}}
|}
Honours
References
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{{21st Constitutional Government of Portugal}}
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Category:Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Category:Socialist Party (Portugal) MEPs
Category:MEPs for Portugal 1994–1999
Category:Culture ministers of Portugal