Miguel Macedo
{{Short description|Portuguese lawyer and politician (1959–2025)}}
{{Portuguese name|Martins da Costa|Macedo e Silva}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Miguel Macedo
| honorific-suffix =
| image = File:Miguel Macedo político português (cropped).png
| caption = Macedo in 2014
| office1 = Minister of Internal Administration
| term_start1 = 21 June 2011
| term_end1 = 16 November 2014
| primeminister1 = Pedro Passos Coelho
| predecessor1 = Rui Pereira
| successor1 = Anabela Rodrigues
| office2 = {{MP PT}}
| term_start2 = 10 March 2005
| term_end2 = 15 November 2015
| constituency2 = Braga
| term_start3 = 13 August 1987
| term_end3 = 4 April 2002
| constituency3 = Braga
| birth_name = Miguel Bento Martins da Costa Macedo e Silva
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1959|6|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = Braga, Portugal
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|3|13|1959|6|6|df=y}}
| death_place =
| party = Social Democratic Party
| profession = Lawyer
}}
Miguel Bento Martins da Costa Macedo e Silva (6 June 1959 – 13 March 2025) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Internal Administration.
Macedo received his degree in law from the University of Coimbra.{{cite web|last=Governo de Portugal|title=Biografia|url=http://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/os-ministerios/ministerio-da-administracao-interna/conheca-a-equipa/ministro/miguel-macedo.aspx|language=Portuguese|accessdate=19 July 2013}}
Life and career
Miguel Macedo was the leader of JSD, the youth wing of PSD.{{cite web|last=Público|title=Perfil: Miguel Macedo, ministro da Administração Interna|url=http://www.publico.pt/Pol%C3%ADtica/perfil-miguel-macedo-ministro-da-administracao-interna_1499199|language=Portuguese|accessdate=17 June 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620190526/http://www.publico.pt/Pol%C3%ADtica/perfil-miguel-macedo-ministro-da-administracao-interna_1499199|archivedate=20 June 2011}} His first experience in the government was in the first cabinet of Aníbal Cavaco Silva as Junior Secretary of State of Minister Couto dos Santos between 1990 and 1991. Afterwards he became active in local politics and was elected city councilor of Braga, from 1993 to 1997. In 2002, he returned to national politics with the PSD as State Secretary of Justice under Minister Celeste Cardona and Minister José Pedro Aguiar-Branco. He was the Deputy for Braga from 1987 to 2002, and again from 2005 onwards.{{cite web |last=Assembleia da República |title=Ficha |url=http://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=123 |accessdate=16 August 2011 |language=Portuguese}}
When Pedro Passos Coelho was elected president of PSD, Miguel Macedo was elected leader of Parliament. His negative vote for the approval of the Programa de Estabilidade e Crescimento [Stability and Growth Programme] (PEC) of the current president at that time, José Sócrates, meant the fall of his government and the call for early elections.
On 16 November 2014, he announced his resignation following a series of corruption allegations and investigations into some of his business and ministerial partners, regarding the attribution of golden visas.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dn.pt/politica/interior/macedo-demite-se-por-ter-autoridade-politica-diminuida-4243313.html|title = Macedo demite-se por ter "autoridade política diminuída"}} In February 2017, the trial regarding those accusations began. In January 2019, Miguel Macedo was acquitted from all the accusations.https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/justica/detalhe/vistos-gold-miguel-macedo-absolvido-de-todos-os-crimes (in Portuguese)
Macedo died from a heart attack on 13 March 2025, at the age of 65.{{cite news |title=Morreu Miguel Macedo, ex-ministro da Administração Interna, aos 65 anos |url=https://www.publico.pt/2025/03/13/politica/noticia/morreu-miguel-macedo-exministro-governo-passos-coelho-2125808 |access-date=13 March 2025 |publisher=Publico |date=13 March 2025}}
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