Rui Tavares

Rui Tavares (born 29 July 1972 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He was elected in 2009 for the Left Bloc. In June 2011, Tavares became an independent within the Greens–European Free Alliance group.[1] In 2014, he founded the new party LIVRE.

Rui Tavares
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
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyLIVRE (2014–present)
Alma materNOVA University Lisbon
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (PhD)
ProfessionHistorian, translator

In the 2021 local elections, Tavares was elected member of the Lisbon City Council.[2] 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.[3]

Tavares Report

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…".[4]

Footnotes
  1. "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.
  2. "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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.


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