Manuel Monteiro
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Manuel Fernando da Silva Monteiro (b. Anissó, Vieira do Minho, 1 April 1962) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician.
After winning the leadership of the conservative Social Democratic Center in March 1992, he moved the party somewhat further to the right and changed its name to the People's Party (PP) in 1995. The renamed party won 9% of the popular vote and 15 deputies, at the legislative elections held on 1 October 1995. This represented a partial comeback for the party that had been decimated in the Elections in Portugal of 1987 and 1991. Heavy losses in the municipal elections of 1997, however, led Monteiro to resign. He was replaced in 1998 by Paulo Portas, his former friend and protégé.
Monteiro left the PP in 2002 following a disagreement with Portas, and founded a new party, the New Democracy Party (PND; Partido da Nova Democracia in Portuguese).
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