Paulo Rangel

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Person.png Paulo Rangel  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
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BornPaulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel
18 February 1968
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materPortuguese Catholic University
PartySocial Democratic Party (Portugal)
Portuguese politician who attended the 2010 Bilderberg as an MEP. Several times mooted as leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Employment.png Member of the European Parliament

In office
1 July 2009 - Present
Preceded byJosé Ribeiro e Castro

Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.

Career

Rangel has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2009 European elections. Ahead of the 2014 European elections, the PSD named Rangel at the top of their list.[1] In the 2019 European elections, he been his party’s lead candidate again.[2]

In parliament, Rangel has been on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs since 2009. In that capacity, he drafted the parliament’s 2010 report on the framework agreement between the European Commission and the Parliament, which demanded that MEPs should be allowed to participate in international negotiations that lead to accords that need parliamentary backing.[3] In 2014, he became the committee’s vice-chairman. He became a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Upon entering the parliament, Rangel was chosen as one of the vice-presidents of the European People's Party Group. Within the European People's Party, he has been chairing the Working Group on EPP Membership since 2016.[4] In this capacity, he notably took the decision to suspend the Hungarian Fidesz party in 2020.[5] In 2021, he was also appointed to the EPP group's task force for proposing changes to its rules of procedure to allow for “the possibility of the collective termination of membership of a group of Members rather than just individual membership”, alongside Esteban González Pons, Jan Olbrycht, Esther de Lange and Othmar Karas.[6]

Bid for national leadership

During his time in parliament, Rangel launched a bid for the leadership of the PSD in 2010 but ultimately came second and lost against Pedro Passos Coelho.[7] In 2021, he again announced his candidacy for the leadership of the PSD and demanded a more assertive opposition to Prime Minister António Costa’s Socialist government; in the vote held in November 2021, he was defeated by incumbent Rui Rio.[8]

Covid

In November 2021, Paulo Rangel, when candidate for president of the PSD party, expressed his position on new Covid measures based "firstly on a pedagogical message" and only then, as the health situation is monitored, and taking into account the recommendations, "there may be more demanding measures"[9]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20103 June 20106 June 2010Spain
Hotel Dolce Sitges
Barcelona
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References

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