Luís Capoulas Santos
{{Short description|Portuguese politician (born 1951)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = His Excellency
| name = Luís Capoulas Santos
| image = Luís Capoulas Santos em Óbidos 2016-11-26 (cropped).png
| honorific-suffix = GCMA
| office1 = Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development
| term_start1 = 26 November 2015
| term_end1 = 26 October 2019
| primeminister1 = António Costa
| predecessor1 = Assunção Cristas
| successor1 = Maria do Céu Antunes
| term_start2 = 3 October 1998
| term_end2 = 6 April 2002
| primeminister2 = António Guterres
| predecessor2 = Fernando Gomes da Silva
| successor2 = Armando Sevinate Pinto
| office3 = Member of the European Parliament
| term_start3 = 20 July 2004
| term_end3 = 30 June 2014
| constituency3 = Portugal
| birth_name = Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|8|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = Socialist Party (1976–present)
| spouse =
| children = 2
| alma_mater = University of Évora
| profession =
| occupation =
| office5 = {{MP PT}}
| term_start5 = 23 October 2015
| term_start6 = 10 April 2002
| term_end6 = 19 July 2004
| term_start7 = 6 October 1991
| term_end7 = 24 October 1999
| constituency5 = Évora
| constituency6 = Évora
| constituency7 = Évora
| office8 = Member of the Montemor-o-Novo City Council
| term_start8 = 12 December 1976
| term_end8 = 16 December 1979
| term_end5 = 25 March 2024
}}
Luís Manuel Capoulas Santos (born 22 August 1951) is a Portuguese politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development.
Life before politics
Capoulas Santos was born in Montemor-o-Novo. He is a licenciate in Sociology from the University of Évora. He worked as a secondary education teacher before taking a position as a technician in the Ministry of Agriculture.
Political activity
His political career started in 1976, after being elected as a member of the City Council in his home city of Montemor-o-Novo.
He was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 1991, and took office as Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries in 1998, replacing Fernando Gomes da Silva, under whom he was Secretary of State. He kept the office until 2002, when the government led by António Guterres resigned after a landslide defeat in local elections.
Capoulas Santos was elected Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists, between 2004 and 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=28311|title=MEP Profile|publisher=European Parliament|accessdate=30 March 2010}}
He returned to the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015, after the nomination of António Costa as Prime Minister.
Honours
References
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Category:People from Montemor-o-Novo
Category:Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Category:Agriculture ministers of Portugal
Category:Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Category:MEPs for Portugal 2004–2009
Category:MEPs for Portugal 2009–2014