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2006 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ140431089 ↗
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The 2006 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election was held on 27 and 28 October 2006 to elect a new Secretary-General of the Socialist Party.

José Sócrates, elected as Prime Minister in the 2005 legislative election, won a second term as leader of the party, winning 97.2% of the votes.

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This entry incorporates text from “2006 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.