The XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal was the 18th government of the Third Portuguese Republic, under the Portuguese Constitution of 1976. It was in office from 26 October 2009 to 21 June 20
Luis Amado
Teixeira dos Santos 2
Member of the European Parliament Manuel Pedro Cunha da Silva Pereira
Augusto Santos Silva September 2016
The 2010–2014 Portuguese financial crisis was part of the wider downturn of the Portuguese economy that started in 2001 and possibly ended between 2016 and 2017. The period from 2010 to 2014 was proba
Manuela Ferreira Leite was the Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2004, in the cabinet of José Manuel Durão Barroso.
From 2005 to 2011, José Sócrates of the Socialist Party (PS) was the prime minister and the leader of the Portuguese Government.
Prime Ministers Pedro Passos Coelho (left) from Portugal (in office since 21 June 2011 after José Sócrates has called for a Portuguese bail-out in April 2011), and Rodriguez Zapatero, from Spain, in October 2011. With economic downturn and a rising unemployment rate (over 10% unemployment rate in Portugal and 20% in Spain by 2011), the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula were trapped right in the middle of the European sovereign debt crisis.