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Rui Tavares

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Rui Tavares
Tavares in 2022
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Assumed office
29 March 2022
ConstituencyLisbon
Member of the Lisbon City Council
Assumed office
18 October 2021
MayorCarlos Moedas
PortfolioNone
Member of the European Parliament
In office
14 July 2009 – 30 June 2014
ConstituencyPortugal
Personal details
Born
Rui Miguel Marcelino Tavares Pereira

(1972-07-29) 29 July 1972 (age 52)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyLIVRE (2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
Left Bloc (2009–2011)
Greens/EFA (2011–2014)
SpouseMarta Bobichon Loja Neves[1]
Children2[2]
Alma materNOVA University Lisbon
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (PhD)
ProfessionHistorian, translator

Rui Miguel Marcelino Tavares Pereira (born 29 July 1972) is a Portuguese historian and politician. He has been elected a Member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2022 legislative election, and has been a member of the Lisbon City Council since 2021.

Tavares is one of the founders and leaders of the green political party LIVRE, established in 2014. He had previously served as an independent Member of the European Parliament, elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc.

Early life and career

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Rui Tavares was born in Lisbon on 29 July 1972, to a bank clerk (and occasionally shepherd) father and a homemaker mother. Tavares had two older half-siblings (born of his father's first marriage; cut short when he became a widower) and two older siblings.[3]

The family was originally from the small rural village of Arrifana, in Azambuja, in the Ribatejo Province, where Tavares spent part of his childhood. The area had a significant labour movement background, influenced by republicanism and anarcho-syndicalism in the early 20th century: the anti-christian spirit of the First Portuguese Republic saw the local parish priest temporarily banished from the town and, unusually for the traditionally Catholic country, it then gained a significant Evangelical Baptist population. The Protestant denomination was indirectly introduced in the town by an atheist great-uncle of Tavares, who invited a Baptist pastor to the village to spite the Catholic hierarchy.[3]

Living with his parents and his next older brother, Tavares attended primary school in Arrifana; of his much older siblings, his sister was already married at the time, and the two other brothers were attending university, one in Lisbon and the other in Czechoslovakia (sponsored by the Portuguese Communist Youth, of which he was a member).[3] Tavares's next older brother attended secondary school in Azambuja and used to bring him books from the school library; by his own admission, Tavares was "bookish" ever since his mother taught him how to read, and he took great pride in having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at this time "as they should be read: perched up in a tree".[3] He became interested in politics at around age 11 or 12, when he started reading anything he could on the different political ideologies at the Municipal Library in Penha de França, and became fascinated with anarchism and left-libertarianism.[3]

Tavares earned a licentiate in History of Art from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University Lisbon in 1994, a master's degree in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon in 1998, and a doctorate in History from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris, in 2014.[4] He taught at university level for two years.[2][3]

Political career

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Rui Tavares, Member of the European Parliament, at a meeting of the Greens–European Free Alliance.

He was elected Member of the European Parliament in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the Greens–European Free Alliance group.[5] During his time at the European Parliament, he focused on refugee and fundamental rights issues.

Tavares Report

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In June 2013, he was commissioned by the European Parliament to submit a report on Hungarian constitutional concerns. The Tavares Report urged the Hungarian authorities "to implement as swiftly as possible all the measures the European Commission as the guardian of the treaties deems necessary in order to fully comply with EU law... [and with] the decisions of the Hungarian Constitutional Court and... the recommendations of the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe and other international bodies…".[6]

LIVRE

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Rui Tavares speaks during the 10th Congress of LIVRE, in 2021

In 2014, he founded the new party LIVRE.

In the 2021 local elections, Tavares was elected member of the Lisbon City Council.[7] Tavares had run alongside incumbent Mayor Fernando Medina on the electoral list of the "Mais Lisboa" coalition (Socialist Party and LIVRE), to be the councillor with the "Human Rights, Knowledge, Science, and Culture" portfolio on a Socialist-led City Council. The majority, however, was won by the "Novos Tempos" coalition (PSD/CDS–PP/Alliance/MPT/PPM); Tavares stated his intention to serve as opposition within the City Council to the new centre-right Mayor, Carlos Moedas.[8]

Tavares was elected Member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2022 legislative election for the Lisbon constituency. Tavares pledged to get António Costa, who was re-elected Prime Minister with an absolute majority, to work with other left-wing parties.[9][10]

Electoral history

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European Parliament election, 2014

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Ballot: 25 May 2014
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS Francisco Assis 1,034,249 31.5 8 +1
PSD/CDS–PP Paulo Rangel 910,647 27.7 7 –3
CDU João Ferreira 416,925 12.7 3 +1
MPT Marinho e Pinto 234,788 7.2 2 +2
BE Marisa Matias 149,764 4.6 1 –2
Livre Rui Tavares 71,495 2.2 0 new
PAN Orlando Figueiredo 56,431 1.7 0 new
PCTP/MRPP Leopoldo Mesquita 54,708 1.7 0 ±0
Other parties 111,765 3.4 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 243,681 7.4
Turnout 3,284,452 33.67 21 –1
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[11]

European Parliament election, 2019

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Ballot: 26 May 2019
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS Pedro Marques 1,104,694 33.4 9 +1
PSD Paulo Rangel 725,399 21.9 6 ±0
BE Marisa Matias 325,093 9.8 2 +1
CDU João Ferreira 228,045 6.9 2 –1
CDS–PP Nuno Melo 204,792 6.2 1 ±0
PAN Francisco Guerreiro 168,015 5.1 1 +1
Alliance Paulo Sande 61,652 1.9 0 new
Livre Rui Tavares 60,446 1.8 0 ±0
Basta! André Ventura 49,388 1.5 0 new
NC Paulo de Morais 34,634 1.1 0 new
Other parties 116,743 2.7 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 235,748 3.5
Turnout 3,307,644 30.75 21 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[12]

Legislative election, 2022

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Ballot: 30 January 2022
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS António Costa 2,302,601 41.4 120 +12
PSD Rui Rio 1,618,381 29.1 77 –2
Chega André Ventura 399,659 7.2 12 +11
IL João Cotrim Figueiredo 273,687 4.9 8 +7
BE Catarina Martins 244,603 4.4 5 –14
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa 238,920 4.3 6 –6
CDS–PP Rodrigues dos Santos 89,181 1.6 0 –5
PAN Inês Sousa Real 88,152 1.6 1 –3
Livre Rui Tavares 71,232 1.3 1 ±0
Other parties 91,299 1.6 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 146,824 2.6
Turnout 5,564,539 51.46 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[13]

Legislative election, 2024

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Ballot: 10 March 2024
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
AD Luís Montenegro 1,867,442 28.8 80 +3
PS Pedro Nuno Santos 1,812,443 28.0 78 –42
Chega André Ventura 1,169,781 18.1 50 +38
IL Rui Rocha 319,877 4.9 8 ±0
BE Mariana Mortágua 282,314 4.4 5 ±0
CDU Paulo Raimundo 205,551 3.2 4 –2
Livre Rui Tavares 204,875 3.2 4 +3
PAN Inês Sousa Real 126,125 2.0 1 ±0
ADN Bruno Fialho 102,134 1.6 0 ±0
Other parties 104,167 1.6 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 282,243 4.4
Turnout 6,476,952 59.90 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[14]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Lopes, Melissa (28 January 2022). "Mulher de Rui Tavares no gabinete de Santos Silva" [Rui Tavares's wife in Santos Silva's staff]. Novo Semanário (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b Monteiro, Ana Luísa (25 January 2022). "Rui Tavares: a infância entre Arrifana e Lisboa, as polémicas com Louçã e Joacine e a "eco-geringonça"" [Rui Tavares: the childhood between Arrifana and Lisbon, the controversies with Louçã and Joacine, and the "eco-contraption"]. SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Mota Ribeiro, Anabela (2 January 2011). "Quando a democracia fizer 48 anos, Rui Tavares abandona a política" [When Democracy turns 48, Rui Tavares will abandon politics]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Investigadores: Instituições, Governação e Relações Internacionais - Rui Tavares". Centro de Estudos Internacionais. ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Rui Tavares corta ligação ao BE e muda de bancada no Parlamento Europeu". Público. publico.pt. 22 June 2011. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
  6. ^ cs - čeština. "REPORT on the situation of fundamental rights: standards and practices in Hungary (pursuant to the European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2012) - A7-0229/2013". europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  7. ^ "Livre elegeu Rui Tavares em Lisboa" [LIVRE gets Rui Tavares elected in Lisbon]. Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. ^ Domingues, Nuno (29 September 2021). "Os três vereadores do Livre e Cidadãos por Lisboa vão ser oposição a Moedas" [The three councillors from LIVRE and Citizens for Lisbon will be opposition to Moedas] (in Portuguese). TSF. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  9. ^ "O Livre faz oito anos, Rui Tavares vai ser deputado e Ana vai pintar o cabelo de verde. Cantam todos juntos por "uma terra sem amos"". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  10. ^ Pincho, João Pedro (31 January 2022). "A festa de anos do Livre teve a eleição de Rui Tavares como brinde". Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 1/2014" (PDF). Diário da República. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 5/2019" (PDF). Diário da República. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  13. ^ "Mapa Oficial n.º 1/2022" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 26 March 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  14. ^ "Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 2-A/2024" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.