Francisco Anacleto Louçã (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku loˈsɐ̃]; born 12 November 1956) is a Portuguese economist and politician.[1]
Francisco Louçã | |
|---|---|
 Louçã in 2021 | |
| Member of the Council of State | |
| In office 12 January 2016 – 29 April 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Assembly of the Republic |
| President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| Coordinator of the Left Bloc | |
| In office 24 March 1999 – 10 November 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Catarina Martins João Semedo |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 25 October 1999 – 25 October 2012 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Francisco Anacleto Louçã 12 November 1956 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | Left Bloc (1999–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Internationalist Communist League (1973–1978) Revolutionary Socialist Party (1978–1999) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Vítor Gaspar (cousin) |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Lisbon |
| Profession | Economist, professor |
Biography
editHe 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
editHe 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
editLegislative election, 1991
edit| 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] | ||||||
Lisbon City Council election, 1997
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS/CDU/UDP | João Soares | 165,072 | 51.9 | 10 | –1 | |
| PSD/CDS–PP | Ferreira do Amaral | 124,866 | 39.3 | 7 | +1 | |
| PSR/PXXI | Francisco Louçã | 8,315 | 2.6 | 0 | new | |
| PCTP/MRPP | – | 6,070 | 1.9 | 0 | ±0 | |
| Blank/Invalid ballots | 13,799 | 4.3 | – | – | ||
| Turnout | 318,102 | 48.29 | 17 | ±0 | ||
| Source: Autárquicas 1997[11][12] | ||||||
Legislative election, 1999
edit| 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[13] | ||||||
Legislative election, 2002
edit| 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[14] | ||||||
Legislative election, 2005
edit| 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[15] | ||||||
Presidential election, 2006
edit| 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[16] | |||
Legislative election, 2009
edit| 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[17] | ||||||
Legislative election, 2011
edit| 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[18] | ||||||
References
edit- ^ Interview by Mark Bergfeld at MRZINE, 13 May 2005
- ^ Raphael Minder, "Rising Left Bloc in Portugal Could Threaten Austerity Drive", The New York Times, 8 November 2015.
- ^ Raphael Minder, "Portugal’s Government Ousted in Challenge to Austerity", The New York Times, 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Portuguese MPs force minority government to quit over austerity"
- ^ Francisco Louçã, Texts at Ideas
- ^ Francisco Louçã, Articles
- ^ As Time Goes By: From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution – paper by Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã at Oxford Scholarship
- ^ Francisco Louçã, Publications
- ^ Francisco Louçã, The Years of High Econometrics (A short history of the generation that reinvented economics) – paper, Routledge
- ^ "Resultados AR 1991" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Diário da República Mapa Oficial" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Há muito, muito tempo, era Lisboa outra cidade..." Público. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Resultados AR 1999" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Resultados AR 2002" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Resultados AR 2005 Rectificação" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Resultados PR 2006" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ Diário da República Mapa Oficial (PDF), Comissão Nacional de Eleições, retrieved 10 October 2022
- ^ "Mapa Resultados AR 2011" (PDF). CNE. Retrieved 5 August 2024.