The major opposition party is now the Socialist Party ( the party of the former Prime-Minister José Sócrates ) with 74 MPs.

Prime Minister José Sócrates was sworn in by President Jorge Sampaio on March 12.

This situation led to the resignation of José Sócrates as Prime Minister and the President dissolved the parliament and called for early elections.

In 2009, during the campaign to the legislative election of 2009, the leader of Socialist Party, José Sócrates, promised a new referendum to the administrative regions and therefore, the abolition of districts, if he gained the election.

11th José Sócrates ( two terms );

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File: José Sócrates cropped. png | José Carvalho Pinto de Sousa GCIHserved 2005 – 2011, born 1957

On 24 February 2005, Sampaio called on José Sócrates, as the nation's next prime minister, to form a government.

* José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, Portuguese politician, former prime-minister of Portugal

José Sócrates, the former Prime Minister of Portugal, was the leader of the leader of the party until 5 June 2011.

José Sócrates, leader of the PS, became Prime Minister.

As a result of this, José Sócrates resigned as Prime Minister and early elections took place on 5 June.

Growing popular disenchantment with the government's handling of the economic crisis coupled with the government's inability to secure the support of other parties to implement the necessary reforms to address the crisis forced the Socialist Party Prime Minister José Sócrates to resign, leading to fresh elections on 5 June 2011.

Portugal's Prime Minister José Sócrates signed the agreement with the Mozambican government, during an official visit to Maputo.

Portuguese prime minister José Sócrates announced that Alcochete was the preliminary choice, to be finalised after public consultation.

Meanwhile he also had a political analysis jaunt with José Sócrates on RTP's Telejornal.

He went on to lead his party to its worst result in parliamentary elections in Portugal ; the election of 20 February 2005 was won by the Socialist Party led by José Sócrates, with whom Santana Lopes had debated every Sunday for one year on the public television station, RTP.

He resigned as an MEP on 11 March 2005 to become Minister of State and Administration in the government of José Sócrates.

* José Sócrates, Former Prime Minister of Portugal.

In 2004, he lost to Manuel Alegre and José Sócrates a bid for the party leadership, and in October 2005 lost to Fernando Seara the election for President of the Municipality of Sintra.

In 2004, he lost to José Sócrates a bid for the party leadership.

José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH ( born 6 September 1957 ), commonly known as José Sócrates (), is a Portuguese politician who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011.

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

* 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

Prime Minister Pedro Pires sent FARP soldiers to Angola where they served as the personal bodyguards of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.

* 1699 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquess of Pombal, Portuguese statesman, Prime Minister of Portugal ( d. 1782 )

Spain | Spanish Prime Minister of Spain | Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005

* May 15 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari ( Prime Minister )

* Prime Minister José Canalejas ( Spain )

** José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain

** José Manuel Barroso, Prime Minister of Portugal

Former Prime Minister José Maria Aznar presides over the Fundación para el Analisis y los Estudios Sociales ( FAES ), a policy institute that is associated with the conservative Popular Party ( PP ).

The Alliance of Civilizations ( AOC ) initiative was proposed at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations in 2005 by the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A diplomatic crisis with Spain in 2005 due to a misunderstanding was quickly resolved by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Spain became the first European country visited by Evo Morales on January 4, 2006.

For instance, painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero are known by their maternal surnames as " Picasso " and " Zapatero ".

José Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, former Prime Minister and present President of East Timor.

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council ( CRC ), chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba in January 1959.

José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953 ) served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004.

After a period of intense diplomacy, President Bush met with his British, Spanish and Portuguese counterparts, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prime Minister José María Aznar and Prime Minister José Manuel Barroso in the Azores, Portugal on March 15 and 16.

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

The Interior Minister, José María de la Jara, believed the group could be easily defeated through police actions.

* July – José I takes over the throne of Portugal from his deceased father, João V. King José Manuel appoints the Marquis of Pombal as his Chief Minister, who then strips the Inquisition of its power.

The XV Constitutional Government was led by José Manuel Durão Barroso, leader of the Social Democratic Party in coalition with the People's Party, whose leader, Paulo Portas, became Minister of Defence.

* José Piñera ( Minister of Labor and Pensions, 1978 – 1980, Minister of Mining, 1980 – 1981 ) ( although his PhD is from Harvard )

In the mid-1820s, when Manuel José García was Minister of Finance, the government borrowed heavily to finance new projects and to pay off war debts.