Denominated in Thursday, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres appreciated in his native Portugal for social obligations and promoting volunteerism. A native of Lisbon, the socialist is an outspoken Catholic.
The 67-year-old Guterres in his youth did not connect their future with the political activities. How often he mentions life in difficult times the conservative regime salazarystów made his active involvement in the public sphere.
In 1973, a year before the bloodless carnation revolution, which overthrew the dictatorship, Guterres decided when creating the Socialist Party. He was then a lecturer at the Metropolitan Higher Technical Institute, the University, where he graduated with honors. Prior political career, he led training on systems theory and communication signals.
Before the revolution of carnations, my political activity was not significant. Concentrated more on the social actions taken in the framework of the organization associated with the Catholic Church – he recalled years later.
is Valued for its social commitment
Guterres acted within the Group Luz (Light), academic society dyskusyjno-social, existing in the mornings, in the Church of the Franciscans. Future UN Secretary-General in his homeland is valued especially for social contribution and promotion of volunteerism.
- Guterres convinced yourself of many people by the example of his life. He has participated in poor areas of the Metropolitan agglomeration. I remember how I came selflessly to the poor families of African migrants to their children to give private lessons. It was a great example of serving others, the more that he did it, as a former Prime Minister, and it means that the person is very recognizable, she said, and the Lisbon social activist Henriqueta Hay.
Guterres, which between 2005 and 2015 for two term acting high Commissioner of the United Nations high Commissioner for Refugees, already in the 70-ies. in his native Portugal, is triggered in the action of helping immigrants. Noticed these efforts abroad. In 1983, the Portuguese socialist was elected Chairman of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In 1995-2000 the head Międzynarodówce Socialist.
As commentators, and ordinary citizens of Portugal shows that Guterres is one of the few politicians in Portugal, presented to me by the sympathy voters of almost all policy options.
Helder Silva, 70-year-old retired teacher from Lisbon, stressed that the new head of the United Nations at home a few enemies. Recognize, however, that the 1995-2002 years old when he became the head of two governments, are not the most beautiful card in the biography policy.
- usually Guterres is a person with a good heart. Unfortunately, not have a happy hand in the nominations of party and Ministerial. Additional complexity in the exercise of power was the fact that both his socialist cabinets did not have a majority in Parliament, said PAP Silva.
Lizbończyk reminded also critical voices wypominające Guterresowi the appointment of a Minister Jose Socratesa. The politician, who in the years 2005-2011 led socjalistycznymi two rooms at the end of his reign brought Portugal to the brink of bankruptcy. In addition, uwikłał in a number of corruption scandals, and in November 2014 fell almost a year in jail.
an Assertive leader
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Guterres, who is the head of the Socialist Party 1992-2002, has established itself as a democratic and assertive leader. – Not always easy for him to agree wyznawany Catholicism with socialism. As Prime Minister and head of the Socialist Party napotykał sometimes to the objection in their own ugrupowaniu in matters of morality. When in 1998 his party colleagues the resolution, a referendum on permitting abortion, Guterres announced publicly that he would vote against abortion – says Silva.
the Prime Minister Guterresowi were also failures, and his political opponents thoroughly used them. Local television stations often resemble archival interview, which is not quite what the Prime Minister was wrong, the value of GDP of Portugal is more than 25 seconds, tried unsuccessfully in the memory to calculate easily the equation.
Another media failure of the new head of the UN parliamentary discussion in the Portuguese Parliament in 1999, during which one of the deputies of the opposition showed the Prime Minister a banner with the sign “@”. To the question if he knows what is written on the picture, Guterres puzzled bowed his head.
- Paradoxically, many people believe that the power Guterresa lies in its alleged weaknesses: excessive credulity in regard to colleagues, in a mild discussion, the ability to admit mistakes. This, however, he becomes closer to ordinary citizens, she added Henriqueta Hay.
she Reminded that in 2012 Guterres gained sincerity in his interview to the public television RTP, apologizing for mistakes made in the pursuit of economic leaders of the European Union. – All who ruled Portugal in recent years, are responsible for the fiasco of our pursuit of the best Commission, and I also said Guterres.
private Life
Antonio Guterres is an engineer by training, elektrotechnikiem. 39-year-old son, Pedro, and nine years younger daughter Marianę. Both descended from the first marriage of politics with Louisa Guterres, the doctor-psychiatrist that future UN Secretary-General have lived together for more than 25 years. After the untimely death of his wife in a failed liver transplant, Guterres in 2001, he married one of his former współpracowniczek, former Secretary of state for culture Catarinę VAZ Pinto. Both ceremoniom wedding was held by the priest Vitor Melicias, a longtime friend Guterresa.
Author: js/mtom / Source: REUTERS
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