Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles
Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles | |
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Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles in 2011 | |
| Minister for Quality of Life | |
| In office 4 September 1981 – 9 June 1983 | |
| Prime Minister | Francisco Pinto Balsemão |
| Preceded by | João Vaz Serra de Moura |
| Succeeded by | António Capucho |
| Secretary of State of the Environment | |
| In office 23 July 1976 – 22 January 1978 | |
| Prime Minister | Mário Soares |
| In office 16 May 1974 – 25 March 1975 | |
| Prime Minister | Adelino da Palma Carlos Vasco Gonçalves |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 6 October 1985 – 24 August 1987 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| In office 29 July 1976 – 7 June 1983 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Member of the Lisbon City Council | |
| In office 15 December 1985 – 16 December 1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles 25 May 1922 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died | 11 November 2020 (aged 98) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Political party | CEUD (1969) Monarchical Convergence (1971–1974) People's Monarchist Party (1974–1992) Earth Party (1993–2007) |
| Spouse | Maria da Conceição Sousa |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Politician and landscape architect |
Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (25 May 1922 – 11 November 2020) was a Portuguese politician and landscape architect. He was born and died in Lisbon.
He was a founder of the People's Monarchist Party in 1974, and led it until 1992, when he left the party. In 1993 co-founded and presided the ecologist movement party Movimento Partido da Terra, today called MPT – Partido da Terra.
He was also Minister for Quality of Life in the Democratic Alliance government, and one of the first Portuguese politicians to call attention to ecological problems, having an influence far beyond the tiny size of the parties he led.