{{Short description|Portuguese politician}} {{Expand Portuguese|topic=bio|Rui Machete|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Rui Machete |image = Rui_Machete_Minister.jpg |office = President of the Social Democratic Party |term_start = 10 February 1985 |term_end = 19 May 1985 |1blankname = {{nowrap|Secretary-General}} |1namedata = Francisco Antunes da Silva |predecessor = Carlos Mota Pinto |successor = Aníbal Cavaco Silva |office1 = Ministerial offices |suboffice1 = Minister of Foreign Affairs |subterm1 = 2013–2015 |suboffice2 = Minister of State |subterm2 = 2013–2015 |suboffice3 = Deputy Prime Minister of Portugal |subterm3 = 1985–1985 |suboffice4 = Minister of National Defence |subterm4 = 1985–1985 |suboffice5 = Minister of Justice |subterm5 = 1983–1985 |suboffice6 = Minister of Social Affairs |subterm6 = 1976–1976 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|4|7}} |birth_place = Setúbal, Portugal<ref name=govprofile/> |death_date = |death_place = |party = Social Democratic Party |spouse = Maria Fernanda Ferreira Pena |children = 3 |alma_mater = University of Lisbon }}
'''Rui Manuel Parente Chancerelle de Machete''' (born 7 April 1940)<ref name=psd>{{cite web|url=http://www.psd.pt/lider.php?i=9|title=Rui Manuel Parente Chancerelle de Machete|work=psd.pt|language=pt|accessdate=13 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913093417/http://www.psd.pt/lider.php?i=9|archive-date=13 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> is a Portuguese politician. Machete served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 to 1979, Minister of Justice from 1983 to 1985, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense in 1985, and Minister of State and Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2015.<ref name=startterm>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvi24.iol.pt/503/politica/rui-machete-governo/1473132-4072.html|title=NOVO GOVERNO: Rui Machete é ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros|date=23 July 2013|publisher=TVI 24|language=pt|accessdate=13 September 2018}}</ref><ref name=endterm>{{cite web|url=https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/antonio-costa-indigitado-a-lista-dos-novos-ministros-de-portugal_n876431|title=António Costa indigitado: a lista dos novos ministros de Portugal|publisher=Radio and Television of Portugal|date=24 November 2015|first=Christopher|last=Marques|language=pt|accessdate=13 September 2018}}</ref><ref name=govprofile>{{cite web|url=https://www.historico.portugal.gov.pt/pt/o-governo/arquivo-historico/governos-constitucionais/gc20/os-ministerios/mne/conheca-a-equipa/ministro/rui-machete.aspx|title=Rui Machete|work=portugal.gov.pt|language=pt|accessdate=13 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913092446/https://www.historico.portugal.gov.pt/pt/o-governo/arquivo-historico/governos-constitucionais/gc20/os-ministerios/mne/conheca-a-equipa/ministro/rui-machete.aspx|archive-date=13 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party in 1985.<ref name=psd/>
==Honours== ===National=== *55px Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ (15 June 1988)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=153&list=1|title=ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS}}</ref>
===Foreign=== *{{flag|Mexico}}: Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (15 September 2015)<ref name="Honors"/> *{{flag|Yugoslavia}}: Order of the Yugoslav Flag with Golden Wreath (9 July 1976)<ref name="Honors">{{cite web|url=https://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=155&list=1|title=ENTIDADES NACIONAIS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS ESTRANGEIRAS}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{19th Constitutional Government of Portugal}} {{20th Constitutional Government of Portugal}} {{Authority control}}
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