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Francisco Louçã
Louçã in 2021
Member of the Council of State
In office
12 January 2016 – 29 April 2022
Appointed byAssembly of the Republic
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Coordinator of the Left Bloc
In office
24 March 1999 – 10 November 2011
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byCatarina Martins
João Semedo
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
25 October 1999 – 25 October 2012
ConstituencyLisbon
Personal details
Born
Francisco Anacleto Louçã

(1956-11-12) 12 November 1956 (age 67)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partyLeft Bloc (1999–present)
Other political
affiliations		Internationalist Communist League (1973–1978)
Revolutionary Socialist Party (1978–1999)
Children1
RelativesVítor Gaspar (cousin)
Alma materTechnical University of Lisbon
ProfessionEconomist, professor

Francisco Anacleto Louçã (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku loˈsɐ̃]; born 12 November 1956) is a Portuguese economist and politician.[1]

Biography

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He is the second son of António Seixas Louçã, a Portuguese Navy Officer, and his wife Noémia da Rocha Neves Anacleto, lawyer, granddaughter of António Neves Anacleto, from Silves, brother of Isabel Maria, António, João Carlos and Jorge Manuel, and cousin of Vítor Gaspar, former Minister of Finances at the right winged Pedro Passos Coelho's government.[2][3][4]

Louçã was an active opponent of the pre-democracy regime. He was arrested for a protest against the colonial war in 1972, before the fall of the dictatorship, which lasted in Portugal for about forty years and finished with the Carnation Revolution, (25 April 1974). In 1999, after pursuing his academic career, he helped found the left-wing party Left Bloc (Portuguese: Bloco de Esquerda).

Career

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He is a Full Professor of Economics in Lisbon's Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (Direct Translation - "Higher Institute of Economics and Management", officially in English - "Lisbon School of Economics and Management"), which belongs to the University of Lisbon (formerly Technical University of Lisbon) and was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1999 to 2012.[citation needed]

He is the author of several books and scientific articles on the history of economic thought, the dynamics of complex adaptive systems and the nature of long-term techno-economic change, including "Turbulence in Economics" (Elgar, 1997), "As Time Goes By" (with Christopher Freeman, Oxford University Press, 2011 and 2002, translated into Portuguese, Chinese), "The Years of High Econometrics" (Routledge, 2007) and a number of papers in scientific journals in economics, mathematical physics, history of economic ideas, mathematical modeling of financial markets, history of biology. His scientific books are translated into eleven languages. In 1999 he was awarded the prize for the best scientific paper of the year, "History of Economics Association".[5][6][7][8][9]

Candidate in the Portuguese 2006 presidential elections, Louçã received 288,224 votes (5.31%).

Francisco Louçã is one of the five personalities elected by the Assembly of the Republic to the Council of State on 18 December 2015, and he took office on 12 January 2016, serving until 2022. He is also the first (and so far only) member of Left Bloc to accede to this body.

Electoral history

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Legislative election, 1991

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Main article: 1991 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 6 October 1991
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Aníbal Cavaco Silva 2,902,351 50.6 135 –13
PS Jorge Sampaio 1,670,758 29.1 72 +12
CDU Álvaro Cunhal 504,583 8.8 17 –14
CDS Diogo Freitas do Amaral 254,317 4.4 5 +1
PSN Manuel Sérgio 96,096 1.6 1 new
PSR Francisco Louçã 64,159 1.1 0 ±0
Other parties 132,495 2.3 0 –7
Blank/Invalid ballots 110,672 1.9 – –
Turnout 5,735,431 67.78 230 –20
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[10]

Legislative election, 1999

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Main article: 1999 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 10 October 1999
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS António Guterres 2,385,922 44.1 115 +3
PSD José Manuel Durão Barroso 1,750,158 32.3 81 –7
CDU Carlos Carvalhas 487,058 9.0 17 +2
CDS–PP Paulo Portas 451,643 8.3 15 ±0
BE Francisco Louçã 132,333 2.4 2 new
Other parties 99,842 1.8 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 108,194 2.0 – –
Turnout 5,415,102 61.02 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[11]

Legislative election, 2002

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Main article: 2002 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 17 March 2002
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD José Manuel Durão Barroso 2,200,765 40.2 105 +24
PS Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues 2,068,584 37.8 96 –19
CDS–PP Paulo Portas 477,350 8.7 14 –1
CDU Carlos Carvalhas 379,870 6.9 12 –5
BE Francisco Louçã 153,877 2.8 3 +1
Other parties 88,542 1.6 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 107,774 2.0 – –
Turnout 5,473,655 61.48 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[12]

Legislative election, 2005

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Main article: 2005 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 20 February 2005
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Sócrates 2,588,312 45.0 121 +25
PSD Pedro Santana Lopes 1,653,425 28.8 75 –30
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa 433,369 7.5 14 +2
CDS–PP Paulo Portas 416,415 7.3 12 –2
BE Francisco Louçã 364,971 6.4 8 +5
Other parties 122,127 2.1 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 169,052 2.9 – –
Turnout 5,747,834 64.26 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[13]

Presidential election, 2006

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Main article: 2006 Portuguese presidential election
Ballot: 22 January 2006
Candidate Votes %
Aníbal Cavaco Silva 2,773,431 50.5
Manuel Alegre 1,138,297 20.7
Mário Soares 785,355 14.3
Jerónimo de Sousa 474,083 8.6
Francisco Louçã 292,198 5.3
Garcia Pereira 23,983 0.4
Blank/Invalid ballots 102,785 –
Turnout 5,590,132 61.53
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[14]

Legislative election, 2009

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Main article: 2009 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 27 September 2009
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Sócrates 2,077,238 36.6 97 –24
PSD Manuela Ferreira Leite 1,653,665 29.1 81 +6
CDS–PP Paulo Portas 592,778 10.4 21 +9
BE Francisco Louçã 557,306 9.8 16 +8
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa 446,279 7.9 15 +1
Other parties 178,012 3.1 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 175,980 3.1 – –
Turnout 5,681,258 59.68 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[15]

Legislative election, 2011

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Main article: 2011 Portuguese legislative election
Ballot: 5 June 2011
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Pedro Passos Coelho 2,159,181 38.7 108 +27
PS José Sócrates 1,566,347 28.0 74 –23
CDS–PP Paulo Portas 653,888 11.7 24 +3
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa 441,147 7.9 16 +1
BE Francisco Louçã 288,923 5.2 8 –8
PCTP/MRPP Garcia Pereira 62,610 1.1 0 ±0
PAN Paulo Borges 57,995 1.0 0 new
Other parties 126,521 2.3 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 228,017 4.1 – –
Turnout 5,585,054 58.03 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[16]

References

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  1. ^ Interview by Mark Bergfeld at MRZINE, 13 May 2005
  2. ^ Raphael Minder, "Rising Left Bloc in Portugal Could Threaten Austerity Drive", The New York Times, 8 November 2015.
  3. ^ Raphael Minder, "Portugal’s Government Ousted in Challenge to Austerity", The New York Times, 10 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Portuguese MPs force minority government to quit over austerity"
  5. ^ Francisco Louçã, Texts at Ideas
  6. ^ Francisco Louçã, Articles
  7. ^ As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution – paper by Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã at Oxford Scholarship
  8. ^ Francisco Louçã, Publications
  9. ^ Francisco Louçã, The Years of High Econometrics (A short history of the generation that reinvented economics) – paper, Routledge
  10. ^ "Resultados AR 1991" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  11. ^ "Resultados AR 1999" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Resultados AR 2002" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  13. ^ "Resultados AR 2005 Rectificação" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  14. ^ "Resultados PR 2006" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  15. ^ Diário da República Mapa Oficial (PDF), Comissão Nacional de Eleições, retrieved 10 October 2022
  16. ^ "Mapa Resultados AR 2011" (PDF). CNE. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
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