António Costa
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António Luís dos Santos da Costa, GCIH (born July 17, 1961 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, former Minister and current Mayor of Lisbon.
He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party (PES), heading the list after the dramatic death of top candidate António de Sousa Franco. On July 20, 2004 he was elected as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. He resigned as an MEP on 11 March 2005 to become Minister of State and Administration in the government of José Sócrates.
António Costa resigned to all government offices in May 2007 to become his party's candidate to the municipality of Lisbon. He was elected as Lisbon's mayor in July 15, 2007.
António Costa is of partial Goan descent, his father having been the writer Orlando da Costa, and his mother the also writer Maria Antónia Palla. His brother by his father's second marriage to Inácia Martins Ramalho de Paiva is journalist Ricardo Costa.
Married at the 6th Conservatory of the Civil Register of Lisbon on July 31, 1987 to Fernanda Maria Gonçalves Tadeu, the couple has a son Pedro Tadeu da Costa, born in 1990, and a daughter Catarina Tadeu da Costa, born in May 1993.
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