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José Pedro Aguiar-Branco
Portuguese politician (born 1957) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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José Pedro Correia de Aguiar-Branco (born 18 July 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024, in the 16th Legislature. Previously he served as Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2005 and Minister of National Defence from 2011 to 2015.[1][2][3]
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In 2024, he was elected as member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2024 legislative elections, for the Viana do Castelo constituency.[4]
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Honours
Foreign
Lithuania: Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (9 November 2019)
Poland: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (28 February 2018)
Romania: Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania (28 February 2018)
Spain: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (19 February 2018)
Personal life
Aguiar-Branco married in 1980 Maria Helena Soares, with whom he has five children.[5]
He is a supporter of same-sex adoption.[6]
References
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