Paulo Portas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paulo Portas
Occupation	Television Presenter
Date Of Birth	Sep 12, 1962(1962-09-12)
Age	62
Birthplace	São Sebastião da Pedreira
Country	Portugal
Horoscope	Virgo

Paulo Portas Biography

Paulo Portas is one of the most popular and richest Television Presenter who was born on September 12, 1962 in São Sebastião da Pedreira, Portugal.

At age 12 in junior high school, Paulo Portas is said to have launched a school newspaper called “Laughs and Smiles” (Risos e Sorrisos); it is not known how long it lasted. In his mid-teens (1974–75) he began contributing to the official newspaper of the youth wing of the PSD (which at the time was called Partido Popular Democrático, ‘PPD’). The paper was called “On Behalf of Socialism” (Pelo Socialismo) and Portas became its chief editor. As a teen he also began working on the conservative daily A Tarde and weekly O Tempo newspapers and soon his eloquent anti-leftist views earned him guest opinion columns in the few conservative newspapers of post-revolution Lisbon. He first became nationally known at 15 years of age when he wrote a letter-to-the- editor of the daily evening newspaper Jornal Novo that prominently published it under the heading “Three Betrayals” (“Três Traições”) directly accusing then president Ramalho Eanes, prime minister Mário Soares and foreign minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral of “selling out” Portugal’s African colonies in 1974–75. The article earned him a libel lawsuit from President Eanes and valuable public exposure to get his own weekly opinion column in O Tempo and, some years later, in the new weekly Semanário. In 1987, he co-founded, with Miguel Esteves Cardoso, the weekly newspaper O Independente, which started publication in May 1988 and became known for its innovative editorial concepts as well as for denouncing political scandals, often on the basis of little more than hearsay. In reporting such scandals, Portas personally targeted the then prime-minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva and most of his ministers (1985–1995) thus making several enemies in the PSD. Although it reached very respectable circulation levels in the 1990s, O Independente never quite reached Portas’s stated objective of outselling the leading Portuguese weekly Expresso and eventually folded in 2006.

Following the 1974 Carnation revolution in Portugal, Paulo Portas was briefly sent to school in France but returned in 1975 to study at Lisbon’s top private high school (Colégio S. João de Brito). In 1984 he got a law degree from the Portuguese Catholic University, where he met Manuel Monteiro who, 10 years later, would serve as Portas’s stepping stone into the CDS-PP and national politics. He is said to be a Church-going Catholic.

Paulo Portas Net Worth

Paulo Portas is one of the richest Television Presenter from Portugal. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paulo Portas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ˈpɔɾtɐʃ] ), is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal’s leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal’s right-wing parties, the CDS – People’s Party (CDS-PP) from 1998–2005 and 2007–2016, on whose lists he was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in every legislative election between 1995 and 2015. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013, and Minister of Defence from 2002 to 2005, all three times in coalitions of the PSD and his CDS-PP. Portas withdrew from politics in 2016.

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In 1998, after the CDS-PP performed poorly in the 1997 local elections, Portas made his move to control the party by first manoeuvering to get Manuel Monteiro to resign, and then by defeating his hand-picked successor who underestimated Portas by comparing him to Mickey Mouse. On 22 March 1998, Portas finally became President of the CDS-PP after a bitter take-over that established Portas’s reputation as a cunning politician who does not hesitate to remove those who stand in his way even if they had formerly been his friends or allies. Upon taking over the CDS-PP, he immediately sought to energize the party and earn himself name recognition by campaigning in more media-friendly ways and soon became known by his appearances in public events that earned him the nickname “Paulie of the Market Fairs” (in Portuguese: “Paulinho das Feiras”). He is also said to have brought in political marketing experts to enhance his image and that of the party. He was a leading voice against Portugal’s “regionalization” and “legalization of abortion” in two 1998 referendums that did not come to pass. In 1999, he headed the CDS-PP list to the European Parliament, got elected but only remained in Brussels less than six months. In 2001 he ran for Mayor of Lisbon and was soundly defeated, but got enough votes to be elected member of the City Council. Despite running under the slogan “I shall remain” (in Portuguese: “Eu fico”), he left City Council shortly afterwards to focus on the 2002 elections.

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In the 2002 legislative elections, the CDS-PP won 8.7 percent of the vote and 14 Parliament seats, which were sufficient to form a government majority with the PSD that won the election. The CDS-PP participated in two coalition governments from April 2002 to March 2005 and Portas served as Minister of State and National Defence in the first (Durão Barroso) and Minister of State, National Defence and Sea Affairs in the second (Pedro Santana Lopes). As Minister of Defence, he presided over important reforms of the military, such as abolishing conscription, but his most lasting legacy was the upgrade of military equipment in the context of the 2003 “Military Programming Law” that envisaged a major boost in military equipment spending to 5,341 million euros, including two submarines and 260 combat vehicles that would become the subject of much controversy after he left office. As Minister of Defense, Paulo Portas was also determinant in aligning Portugal with George W. Bush’s 2003 Iraq invasion by saying he had personally “seen irrefutable evidence of weapons of mass destruction” while on an official visit to Washington. He was subsequently awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by the USA’s Defense Department.