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	Pravda.RU:Portugal: New year, new faces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Ferro Rodrigues has the backing of the various factions within the party to stand against Durao Barroso, the leader of the Social Democrats (PSD), Carlos Carvalhas of the Portuguese Communist Party, Francisco Lousa and Miguel Portas of the Left Block and a candidate yet to be nominated by the conservative Popular Party (PP).
		Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, an economist, has been politically active since his student days.
		While Ferro Rodrigues must be confirmed as the leader of the party in a Congress, he is a candidate who united the three factions of the party behind him.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2001/12/21/24229_.html (507 words)

	O radicalismo pequeno-burgues da alternativa socialista -- DOTeCOMe Forum (2)
		The social democratic, Partido Socialista (PS), the largest opposition party, during the government of Durão Barroso, was involved in a paedophile scandal that involved prominent public figures, including one of the leaders of the PS and included the previous general secretary, Ferro Rodrigues.
		Ferro Rodrigues while he is considered to be a "left-winger, has always been "surrounded" by PS apparatchiks who are clearly pro-capitalist and heavily involved in local councils riddled with corruption.
		> >Ferro Rodrigues while he is considered to be a >"left-winger, has always been "surrounded" by PS >apparatchiks who are clearly pro-capitalist and >heavily involved in local councils riddled with >corruption.
	www.voy.com /189005/6/685.html (3221 words)

	Portugal's National Weekend Newspaper in English
		Also in tow was Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, leader of the opposition Socialist Party.
		Rodrigues is currently fighting off a paedophile scandal, following the arrest of Socialist MP Paulo Pedroso and claims, in some newspapers that the PS leader has also been accused of limited involvement.
		Barroso did attend the May 15th - 18th meeting, along with the press officer of PS leader Ferro Rodrigues, the Prime Minister’s press office was unable to comment when contacted by The Portugal News.
	www.prisonplanet.com /barroso_bombed_off_to_bilderberg_meeting.html (461 words)

	Leader linked to child sex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		On the day of Pedroso's arrest, Ferro Rodrigues said he believed the Socialist party spokesperson was being framed and he warned of plans to produce false accounts which would also implicate him in the scandal.
		In a statement sent to the Lusa news agency early on Saturday, Ferro Rodrigues denied the newspaper allegations and said his party would vigourously fight what he said was a campaign to discredit it.
		Portuguese media reported Thursday that the phones of Ferro Rodrigues and a number of other Socialist leaders were tapped after Pedroso was named as being allegedly involved in the child sex ring.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1364162,00.html (681 words)

	WSJ.com - Major Business News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Socialist Party candidate Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues pledges to balance fiscal discipline with social measures, and focus on improving the country's competitiveness by boosting education and building on the benefits of EU integration.
		Rodrigues was infrastructure minister under Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, who resigned following the Social Democrat's sweep in December's municipal elections.
		Rodrigues has countered that his opponent's approach will worsen the deficit and increase unemployment.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/021Compecon/E_Union/Portugal/020313Troubles.htm (1913 words)

	Arrest of Portugal's elite in paedophile scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Socialist Party leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, who is a close personal friend of Pedroso, also offered to undergo police questioning after “he had learned of plans to implicate him in the scandal”.
		Ferro Rodrigues says he will take legal action against those defaming him.
		Whatever the truth of the child abuse allegations is, the government has used the Casa Pia scandal to justify the widespread tapping of phone calls by the police and the detention of suspects for up to 12 months without charge.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/jun2003/port-j18.shtml (1483 words)

	CNN.com - Portugal set for tight election - March 17, 2002
		He was replaced by Rodrigues, a former political prisoner, who helped found the militant Socialist Left Movement.
		Durao Barroso, who is a former minister, has based his economic programme on business and income tax cuts and on lower government spending as a way to draw investment to Portugal.
		Rodrigues said: "We want a majority (in parliament) so that we can have political stability, but also to have social stability and economic progress."
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/17/portugal.election (549 words)

	Portuguese opposition calls for Iraqi troop pullout by September (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Portugal's opposition Socialists, fresh from a resounding victory in European elections, called Tuesday for the country's small contingent of troops to leave Iraq by September, saying the country's main objective there should be humanitarian and aiding reconstruction.
		"The presence of the GNR (national guards, a militarized police force) in Iraq should conclude its mission at the end of September," Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, party secretary general said, quoted by the Portuguese Lusa news agency.
		Ferro Rodrigues commented on Iraq two days after his Socialist party soundly beat the ruling center-right coalition of Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso in the European elections, garnering nearly 45 percent to the right's 33 percent.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040615201544.qhsv6lwf.html (236 words)

	The Resident \| Algarve Edition
		Ferro Rodrigues has also had his name associated with the scandal.
		Pedroso claims that he knew ten days prior to his arrest, while Ferro Rodrigues alleges that the PS was informed 12 days before.
		Speaking after an emergency PS party meeting, Ferro Rodrigues revealed that the same sources that had alerted the party to the allegations being made against Pedroso, had also advised him that there would be an attempt to discredit him.
	portugalresident.com /portugalresident/showstory.asp?id=2164&s= (906 words)

	Star - Prominent figures detained as child-sex scandal rocks Portugal
		Madrid - Portugal's Socialist Party leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues has been called to testify in a child-sex scandal that has ripped through the country's political and showbusiness elite.
		Rodrigues is the latest in a stream of prominent politicians, diplomats and TV talkshow hosts to be implicated in a paedophile ring said to have preyed for decades on boys in a state-run orphanage.
		Rodrigues, who was due to appear in court today, was likely to be asked whether he had covered up illicit activities.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=163389 (668 words)

	The Observer \| International \| Ex-Minister held in child sex ring case
		The trial of a top TV presenter, a former ambassador and a leading children's health expert on similar charges is expected to start soon.
		The country's Attorney-General denied that Socialist Party leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues was suspected of any involvement in the child abuse ring alleged to include senior members of the Portuguese establishment.
		Rodrigues, a government Minister until last year, had earlier revealed that his name was included in the documents which led to the arrest of his party spokesman.
	www.propagandamatrix.com /ex_minister_held_in_child_sex_ring_case.htm (500 words)

	Paulo Pedroso, Casa Pia and Portugal's paedophile panic
		Ferro Rodrigues himself was at one point named in the documents which led to Pedroso’s arrest and said at the time that he expected to face allegations himself.
		Pedroso himself protested that he was the victim of a calumny: ‘I have never participated in any act of paedophilia or any similar act,’ he told a press conference just before his arrest.
		He is supported not only by Rodrigues but by his predecessor, the former socialist leader and Prime Minister, António Guterres.
	www.richardwebster.net /print/xportuguesekincora.htm (1208 words)

	How Portugal voted and not voted. - International Elections - Indymedia Ireland
		Socrates predecessor was Eduardo Luís Barreto Ferro Rodrigues who was alive and in good health on election night, celebrating the absolute majority of the Socialists Party.
		Ferro Rodrigues Leader of The Socialists Party and conclude that that period includes the date of death of Antonio Sousa Franco)
		So, the TRUTH is: Jose Socrates predecessor was Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues; Antonio Sousa Franco, who was the head of Portugal's Socialist Party list for the last European Parliament elections died from heart attack.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68711 (1845 words)

	Portugal: The long-awaited collapse of Santana's government
		His involvement in the paedophile scandal, even if indirectly, has weakened his position.
		The Socialist Party leadership only put up very timid opposition and Ferro Rodrigues felt himself betrayed.
		The PS had just won the European elections and in protest he resigned as General Secretary of the PS.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/01/06portugal.html (1596 words)

	Pravda.RU:Left against right in Portuguese general elections
		After six years in power, the ruling Partido Socialista (Socialist party) is unable to communicate to the population the many important reforms it has made, a victim of the eternal political wasting process.
		New PS leader Ferro Rodrigues, whose slogan is “Positive Portugal”, an economist from the left wing of the party, declares confidently that “There are those who think the election is decided against us.
		They are wrong” and plays an interesting political card, admitting that “We must have the humility to recognise the mistakes we have made.
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/02/25/26632_.html (647 words)

	Prison Planet.com: Do You Have the Knowledge to Escape?
		The senior socialist MP Paulo Pedroso, number two in the party and a former labour minister, was taken from parliament by police and held for investigation three weeks ago on 15 counts of suspected child-sex abuse.
		Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, the party leader, who is not accused of involvement, testified in court last week, and the former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who is also not under suspicion, visited him in jail to show support.
		The abuse accusations centre on Casa Pia, an austere building in a leafy Lisbon neighbourhood, home to children without families, or with parents too poor to care for them.
	www.prisonplanet.com /061603sexrings.html (660 words)

	AP Worldstream: Popular Socialist government official joins party's leadership contest@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Infrastructure Minister Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, one of the Socialist government's most popular members, is joining the party's leadership race as a consensus candidate who is widely expected to win.
		Ferro Rodrigues, 52, was to announce his decision late Friday, the Socialist Party said in a statement.
		The leadership contest was prompted by the resignation of party leader and prime minister Antonio Guterres following a resounding defeat in Sunday's nationwide local elections.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:49078043&refid=holomed_1 (211 words)

	Portugal's electoral coup
		Within minutes of Sampaio’s announcement Ferro Rodrigues resigned as leader of the PS, stating that, “It is now up to the Socialist Party to choose a new Secretary-General capable of confronting the new political situation.”
		Sensing the crisis that lays ahead Ferro Rodrigues made the PS campaign in June’s elections to the European Parliament a plebiscite on Durão Barroso’s government.
		After the European election results Ferro Rodrigues declared, “What is clear is that those who have a clear majority in parliament do not enjoy the support of the majority of the Portuguese people”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/aug2004/port-a09_prn.shtml (1203 words)

	Opposition Social Democrats lead Portugal results
		The Socialists headed by former public works minister Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues had 37.87 percent.
		About 90,000 people are on waiting lists for surgery in the public health system and courts face a backlog of more than one million cases.
		Ferro Rodrigues, a former public works minister with roots in the Socialists' left wing, had called for targeted tax cuts to boost the economy.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/March/world/024C76709B.html (528 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Better Late than Never -- Jun. 02, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition politicians, including Pedroso's mentor, Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, and Antonio Costa, head of the party's parliamentary delegation.
		The Socialists smell a witch-hunt: Ferro Rodrigues said he had learned of plans to implicate him in the scandal, although Attorney General José Souto de Moura insists he is not a suspect.
		Party spokesman Manuel Alegre said there could be no democracy if "everyone is listening in on everyone else." Francisco Louça, spokesman for the minority Left Bloc Party, described the phone tapping as Portugal's "judicial Watergate." But the Attorney General maintained that the police had acted within their powers.
	time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901030602-455005,00.html (870 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Portuguese socialists elect new leader
		Portugal's governing Socialist Party has elected Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues as its new leader.
		Correspondents say Mr Rodrigues, who is a former welfare and employment minister, has a tricky legacy to deal with.
		They say he needs to stake out new political ground to try to win back voters ahead of elections in March.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1784470.stm (126 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Portugal Socialists name new boss
		The 47-year-old leader, who replaced Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, will steer the party into elections expected in 2006.
		Mr Socrates replaces Mr Rodrigues who resigned in July.
		He quit after President Jorge Sampaio allowed the ruling Social Democrats to name a replacement for Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso - who left to become president of the European Commission - rather than call early elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3690634.stm (222 words)

	CNN.com - Shift to right in Portugal elections - March 18, 2002
		Portas' Popular Party won 8.75 percent of the vote, or 14 seats.
		The Socialists, headed by former public works minister Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, had 37.85 percent, or 95 seats, while the Communists had 6.97 percent, 12 seats, and the tiny Left Bloc 2.75 percent, three seats.
		The Socialists have promised to act effectively in opposition to prevent welfare cuts after performing better than expected in the elections.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/18/portugal.victory (494 words)

	CNN.com - Opposition ahead in Portugal poll - March 16, 2002
		Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, a former public works minister, made a late appeal to undecided voters to turn out in his favour.
		A poll in Publico newspaper on Friday said up to 29.5 percent of voters had still to decide how to vote or would abstain.
		"We want a majority (in parliament) so that we can have political stability, but also to have social stability and economic progress," Ferro Rodrigues said at a rally in a Lisbon assembly hall.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/16/portugal.elections (501 words)

	Rodrigues (disambiguation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		There are things that have the name Rodrigues.
		Guilherme Rodrigues (born 1988), a Portuguese jazz musician
		Sarmento Rodrigues (1899-1979), a Portuguese marine official, colonist and professor
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rodrigues-(disambiguation).htm (105 words)

	Xinhua News Agency: Portugal's Socialist Leader Recognizes Election Defeat.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Portugal' ruling Socialist Party (PS) top leader, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, conceded defeat Sunday in the early legislative elections to the center-right Social
		"My congratulations to the Social Democrats, its voters, its activists and (party leader Jose Manuel) Durao Barroso for the vote that they won," Ferro Rodrigues told supporters.
		"We lost the elections with a margin of a little more than 2 percent of the votes," Ferro added.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:83886799&refid=holomed_1 (185 words)

	C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\276fin.htm
		Finland fully aligns herself with the statement given by the distinguished Minister of Social and Labour Affairs of Portugal, Mr.
		Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, on behalf of the European Union.
		During this week we will again raise deliberations of social development to the high political level.
	www.un.org /socialsummit/speeches/276fin.htm (968 words)

	European Commission Spokesman's Briefing for 00-04-14
		[20] Anna Diamantopoulou and Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues to launch Equal initiative
		Nielson a également esquissé le cadre de travail pour les années à venir avec pour fond la conclusion d'un nouveau accord de partenariat ACP-CE et l'adoption imminente par la Commission de sa Communication dur l'avenir de la politique de développemnt.
		European Commissioner for Employment, Anna Diamantopoulou, and Portuguese Minister for Labour, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, will this Friday launch Equal, the new EU initiative designed to combat discrimination in the jobs market.
	www.hri.org /news/europe/midex/2000/00-04-14.midex.html (2922 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe
		Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, 54, who would have been the Socialist candidate for prime minister had Sampaio called elections, said he'll quit as party leader.
		Analysts on Portugal's RTP television said European Justice Commissioner Antonio Vitorino, 47, is a likely candidate to succeed Ferro Rodrigues.
		Durao Barroso, 48, said on June 29 he would take the job of European Commission president.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aT4seCRCFvZg&refer=europe (367 words)

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