Carlos Pereira

Carlos João Pereira (born 30 August 1969) is a Portuguese politician and economist. He is currently a member of the Portuguese Parliament and vice-president of the Socialist Party's parliamentary group. He was also a member of parliament and parliamentary leader of the PS in the Legislative Assembly of Madeira.

Biography He has a degree in economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG). He has two postgraduate degrees, one in Rural Sociology (Instituto Superior de Agronomia) and the other in Tourism Management (Universidade da Madeira).

He was director of Sociedade de Desenvolvimento da Madeira, the company that manages the Madeira Free Trade Zone, secretary-general of the Madeira Chamber of Commerce and Industry, financial director and deputy director of the Madeira Science and Technology Center, visiting professor at the University of Madeira between 1995 and 2008 and founder and first president of the regional branch of the Order of Economists.

He is an independent consultant to the European Commission for Horizon 2020, a European Union funding framework program for research and innovation. The PS came second and Pereira was elected as a city councillor, ending his term prematurely in 2007, after a court ruling, for failing to submit his tax return on time.

After the PS's poor result in the regional elections in March 2015, Victor Freitas, then regional president of the party, resigned and Carlos Pereira was the only candidate to succeed him. At the beginning of 2018, he lost the PS's regional leadership to Emanuel Câmara, mayor of Porto Moniz, who promised to take independent Paulo Cafôfo, then mayor of Funchal, as his frontrunner in the 2019 regional elections.

Regional Assembly He was elected to the Madeira Regional Legislative Assembly (ALRAM) in the elections of 2007, 2011⁣ – he was the frontrunner that year – and 2015⁣ – in which he was the second candidate. He was president of the PS-Madeira parliamentary group.

Parliament In October 2015, he was elected to the RA for the Madeira constituency, suspending his mandate as a regional MP. In Parliament, he is one of the vice-presidents of the PS parliamentary group and belongs to the European Affairs, Economy, Innovation and Public Works and Inquiry into the Recapitalization of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and the Management of the Bank committees and is an alternate member of the National Defence Committee.

He will once again be the PS candidate for the Madeira constituency in the 2019 legislative elections.