About Luís Filipe Menezes
Born 1953. Luís Filipe Menezes is a Portuguese politician and physician.
Luís Filipe de Menezes Lopes (born 2 November 1953) is a Portuguese politician.
Background Luís Filipe Menezes is the son of José António Lopes, an industrialist, and Maria Helena de Menezes Borges, a high school teacher with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto.
Career He is a Licentiate in Medicine specialized in pediatrics from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto.
He started his career as a medical doctor.
Affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and from 1997 to 2013 he was Mayor of the Municipal Chamber of Vila Nova de Gaia (in Greater Porto subregion), one of the most populated Portuguese municipalities.
He was leader of the Social Democratic Party between 12 October 2007 and 20 June 2008. He was elected after Luís Marques Mendes and was succeeded by Manuela Ferreira Leite.
Meneses is considered a populist, his policies as mayor were equally populist and his victory over Marques Mendes is considered a victory of populism in the PSD, as there was a clear difference between the positions of both, having Meneses a more politically correct and pro-people position in most matters, although with a sightly neoliberal stance on the health care system, and a liberal conservative position towards gay rights.
Luis Filipe Menezes is considered as a modern politician. He had the best score in the Municipality elections of October 2009.
Family Luís Filipe Menezes is the son of José António Lopes and Maria Helena de Menezes Borges.
He has four children.
In 2015, he married lawyer Ana Luísa Caetano, with whom he has one son.
Electoral history Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 1997
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Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2001
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PSD leadership election, 2005
Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2005
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PSD leadership election, 2007
Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2009
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Porto City Council election, 2013
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Vila Nova de Gaia City Council election, 2025
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Who is Luís Filipe Menezes?
Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic
When was Luís Filipe Menezes born?
Luís Filipe Menezes was born on 2 November 1953 in Freguesia de Ovar.
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Luís Filipe Menezes is a politician and physician.
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Luís Filipe Menezes is Portuguese.
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