Pedro Silva Pereira

Pedro Silva Pereira
Silva Pereira in 2015
Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office 3 July 2019 – 15 July 2024 Serving with See List
President	David Sassoli Roberta Metsola
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 15 July 2024
Parliamentary group	S&D
Constituency	Portugal
Minister of the Presidency
In office 12 March 2005 – 21 June 2011
Prime Minister	José Sócrates
Preceded by	Nuno Morais Sarmento
Succeeded by	Luís Marques Guedes
Secretary of State of Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation
In office 28 October 1999 – 6 April 2002
Prime Minister	António Guterres
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 2002–2014
Parliamentary group	Socialist Party
Constituency	Vila Real
Website	pedrosilvapereira.pt

Manuel Pedro Cunha da Silva Pereira (15 August 1962), better known as Pedro Silva Pereira, is a Portuguese politician, lawyer and legal expert. He served as a Member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2024.

Early life and education

Silva Pereira holds a master's degree in Law from the University of Lisbon.

Political career

Career in national politics

Silva Pereira has been a member of the Socialist Party since 2000. In his home country, he was member of the Portuguese Parliament from 2002 to 2014, Secretary of State of Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation from 1999 to 2002 in António Guterres' second cabinet, and Minister of the Presidency from 2005 to 2011 in José Sócrates' cabinets.[1]

Member of the European Parliament, 2014–present

Silva Pereira first became a Member of the European Parliament in the 2014 elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. In 2016, he also joined the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Between 2014 and 2016, he was briefly a member of the Committee on Development. Since 2021, he has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[2]

Since the 2019 elections, Silva Pereira has been serving as one of the Parliament's Vice-Presidents; in this capacity, he is part of the Parliament's leadership under President David Sassoli.[3]

In addition to his committee assignments, Silva Pereira has been part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Japan since 2014.

Political positions

Together with Danuta Hübner, Silva Pereira drafted a 2018 report in which they called on the European Parliament to hold 46 of the 73 seats which will be lost after Brexit in reserve for possible new class of MEPs representing pan-European constitutencies and for countries that might join the EU in the future; their proposal was later rejected by a parliamentary majority.[4]

Recognition

Pereira's work on the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement earned him the Order of the Rising Sun, the country's highest honor, in 2019.[5]

References

1. Sampaio, Gustavo (3 July 2019). "Pedro Silva Pereira: "Alma gémea" de José Sócrates chega à vice-presidência do Parlamento Europeu" [Pedro Silva Pereira: José Sócrates' “soul mate” reaches European Parliament's Vice-Presidency]. Jornal Económico (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
2. Members of the delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe European Parliament.
3. The new European Parliament Vice-Presidents European Parliament, press release of 3 July 2019.
4. Maïa de La Baume (7 February 2018), Parliament votes down plan for pan-European MEPs Politico Europe.
5. Sofia Diogo Mateus (11 January 2021), Portuguese people to know in the Brussels Bubble Politico Europe.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Personal profile of Pedro Silva Pereira in the European Parliament's database of members