José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal

José Sócrates

Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011

José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, commonly known as José Sócrates, is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007, he acted as president-in-office of the Council of the European Union.

List of prime ministers of Portugal

The prime minister of the Portuguese Republic is the head of the Government of Portugal. The officeholder coordinates the actions of all ministers, represents the Government as a whole, reports their actions and is accountable to the Assembly of the Republic, in addition to…