Paulo Rangel

Paulo Rangel
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Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
1 July 2009
ConstituencyPortugal
Vice President of the PSD
Assumed office
3 July 2022
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
10 March 2005 – 1 July 2009
ConstituencyPorto
Deputy Secretary of State of Justice
In office
17 July 2004 – 12 March 2005
Personal details
Born
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel

(1968-02-18) 18 February 1968 (age 55)
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Political partyPSD (since 2005)
Alma materPortuguese Catholic University
ProfessionJurist

Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel (born 18 February 1968 in Vila Nova de Gaia) is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. He also serves as treasurer of the European People's Party under the leadership of its president Manfred Weber.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

Rangel has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2009 European elections. Ahead of the 2014 European elections, the PSD named Rangel at the top of their list. In the 2019 European elections, he served as his party’s lead candidate again.

In parliament, Rangel has been serving on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs since 2009. In that capacity, he drafted the parliament’s 2010 report on the framework agreement between the European Commission and the Parliament, which demanded that MEPs should be allowed to participate in international negotiations that lead to accords that need parliamentary backing. In 2014, he became the committee’s vice-chairman. He became a member of the Working Group on the Conference on the Future of Europe.

In 2019, Rangel also joined Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. In this capacity, he has been serving as the parliament’s rapporteur on Croatia’s accession to the Schengen zone.

In addition to his committee assignments, Rangel has been serving on the parliament’s delegations for to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2017–2019) and for relations with the United States (2019–2014), Brazil (2014–2017), Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo (since 2021), and Montenegro (since 2021).

Upon entering the parliament, Rangel was chosen as one of the vice-presidents of the European People's Party Group. Within the European People's Party, he has been chairing the Working Group on EPP Membership since 2016. In this capacity, he notably took the decision to suspend the Fidesz party in 2020. In 2021, he was also appointed to the EPP group's task force for proposing changes to its rules of procedure to allow for “the possibility of the collective termination of membership of a group of Members rather than just individual membership”, alongside Esteban González Pons, Jan Olbrycht, Esther de Lange and Othmar Karas.

Role in national politics

During his time in parliament, Rangel launched a bid for the leadership of the PSD in 2010 but ultimately came second and lost against Pedro Passos Coelho. In 2021, he again announced his candidacy for the leadership of the PSD and demanded a more assertive opposition to Prime Minister António Costa’s Socialist government; in the vote held in November 2021, he was defeated by incumbent Rui Rio.

Other activities

  • RAR Group, Chairman of the Board of the Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Associação Comercial do Porto (ACP), Member of the Board

Personal life

In 2021, Paulo Rangel publicly came out about his homosexuality.




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