constituency predecessor successor birth_name birth_place children party profession office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
lisbon lisbon faro jorge sampaio pedro santana lopes joão barroso soares lisbon three daughters , two sons socialist party lawyer mayor of lisbon member of assembly of the republic 29 august 1949 14 15 october 2009 august 1995 13 august 1987 5 april 2002 annick burhenne maria olímpia soares -lrb- divorced -rrb- joão soares senate of poland.jpg joão soares -lrb- politician -rrb-
 6 january 2002 3 november 1991 14 october 2009 joão soares politician university of lisbon
joão soares -lrb- politician -rrb-

joão barroso soares -lrb- born lisbon , são cristóvão e são lourenço , 29 august 1949 -rrb- is a portuguese lawyer and politician , member of the socialist party , and was parliamentary and president of the municipality of lisbon -lrb- 1995 -- 2002 -rrb- .
he is the son of the former portuguese prime minister and president , mário soares , and the actress maria barroso .
he was married to maria olímpia soares -lrb- b. 1951 -rrb- , daughter of antónio domingos de oliveira soares and wife clotilde soares , by whom he had three children : maria inês -lrb- b. 1976 -rrb- , maria mafalda -lrb- b. 1981 -rrb- and mário alberto -lrb- b. 1987 -rrb- .
later divorced , he married the belgian annick burhenne , by whom he had a son jonas -lrb- b. 2003 -rrb- , named after jonas savimbi , of whom joão soares is an admirer , and a daughter lilah -lrb- b. 2007 -rrb- .
he was member of the european parliament and of the portuguese state council .
in 2004 , he lost to manuel alegre and josé sócrates a bid for the party leadership , and in october 2005 lost to fernando seara the election for president of the municipality of sintra .
he also lost the election for president of the municipality of lisbon to pedro santana lopes , in 2001 , being the first mayor of lisboa to lose a reelection .
in july 2008 he was elected president of the osce parliamentary assembly .
he was reelected for another one year term in july 2009 .
during the united states elections , 2012 , he acted as the special coordinator for the office for democratic institutions and human rights -lrb- odihr -rrb- international electoral observer team .
