About Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system. He is most recognized for guiding Portugal into the European Union, liberalizing the Portuguese economy and improving infrastructures across the country. In the 250-member Assembly of the Republic, the nation's legislature, the PRD won 45 seats – at the expense of every party except Cavaco Silva's PSD. According to a contemporary report in The New York Times, Cavaco Silva's first government presided over an "economic boom". This was the first time since the 1974 revolution that a single party had won an outright majority in the national parliament.
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