Francisco Louçã

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 2012
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
BornFrancisco Anacleto Louçã
(1956-11-12) 12 November 1956
Lisbon, Portugal
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

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

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.

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]

A candidate in the 2006 Portuguese presidential election, 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

Legislative election, 1991

Ballot: 6 October 1991
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Aníbal Cavaco Silva2,902,35150.6135–13
PS Jorge Sampaio1,670,75829.172+12
CDU Álvaro Cunhal504,5838.817–14
CDS Diogo Freitas do Amaral254,3174.45+1
PSN Manuel Sérgio96,0961.61new
PSR Francisco Louçã64,1591.10±0
Other parties 132,4952.30–7
Blank/Invalid ballots 110,6721.9––
Turnout 5,735,43167.78230–20
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[10]

Lisbon City Council election, 1997

Ballot: 14 December 1997
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS/CDU/UDP João Soares165,07251.910–1
PSD/CDS–PP Ferreira do Amaral124,86639.37+1
PSR/PXXI Francisco Louçã8,3152.60new
PCTP/MRPP –6,0701.90±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 13,7994.3––
Turnout 318,10248.2917±0
Source: Autárquicas 1997[11][12]

Legislative election, 1999

Ballot: 10 October 1999
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS António Guterres2,385,92244.1115+3
PSD José Manuel Durão Barroso1,750,15832.381–7
CDU Carlos Carvalhas487,0589.017+2
CDS–PP Paulo Portas451,6438.315±0
BE Francisco Louçã132,3332.42new
Other parties 99,8421.80±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 108,1942.0––
Turnout 5,415,10261.02230±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[13]

Legislative election, 2002

Ballot: 17 March 2002
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD José Manuel Durão Barroso2,200,76540.2105+24
PS Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues2,068,58437.896–19
CDS–PP Paulo Portas477,3508.714–1
CDU Carlos Carvalhas379,8706.912–5
BE Francisco Louçã153,8772.83+1
Other parties 88,5421.60±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 107,7742.0––
Turnout 5,473,65561.48230±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[14]

Legislative election, 2005

Ballot: 20 February 2005
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Sócrates2,588,31245.0121+25
PSD Pedro Santana Lopes1,653,42528.875–30
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa433,3697.514+2
CDS–PP Paulo Portas416,4157.312–2
BE Francisco Louçã364,9716.48+5
Other parties 122,1272.10±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 169,0522.9––
Turnout 5,747,83464.26230±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[15]

Presidential election, 2006

Ballot: 22 January 2006
Candidate Votes %
Aníbal Cavaco Silva2,773,43150.5
Manuel Alegre1,138,29720.7
Mário Soares785,35514.3
Jerónimo de Sousa474,0838.6
Francisco Louçã292,1985.3
Garcia Pereira23,9830.4
Blank/Invalid ballots 102,785–
Turnout 5,590,13261.53
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[16]

Legislative election, 2009

Ballot: 27 September 2009
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Sócrates2,077,23836.697–24
PSD Manuela Ferreira Leite1,653,66529.181+6
CDS–PP Paulo Portas592,77810.421+9
BE Francisco Louçã557,3069.816+8
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa446,2797.915+1
Other parties 178,0123.10±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 175,9803.1––
Turnout 5,681,25859.68230±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[17]

Legislative election, 2011

Ballot: 5 June 2011
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Pedro Passos Coelho2,159,18138.7108+27
PS José Sócrates1,566,34728.074–23
CDS–PP Paulo Portas653,88811.724+3
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa441,1477.916+1
BE Francisco Louçã288,9235.28–8
PCTP/MRPP Garcia Pereira62,6101.10±0
PAN Paulo Borges57,9951.00new
Other parties 126,5212.30±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 228,0174.1––
Turnout 5,585,05458.03230±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[18]

References

  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 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  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. ↑ "Diário da República Mapa Oficial" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 2 March 1998. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  12. ↑ "Há muito, muito tempo, era Lisboa outra cidade..." Público. 6 September 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  13. ↑ "Resultados AR 1999" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  14. ↑ "Resultados AR 2002" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  15. ↑ "Resultados AR 2005 Rectificação" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  16. ↑ "Resultados PR 2006" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  17. ↑ Diário da República Mapa Oficial (PDF), Comissão Nacional de Eleições, retrieved 10 October 2022
  18. ↑ "Mapa Resultados AR 2011" (PDF). CNE. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
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