Armando Vara

Armando António Martins Vara (born 1954, Vinhais) is a Portuguese politician, member of the Portuguese Socialist Party, and banking administrator. He enrolled in philosophy at the New University of Lisbon, leaving the institution whithout being awarded a degree. Throughout his life he was an employee at the state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos where he worked in different positions ranging from clerk (it was his first job) to administrator (appointed in 2005, three days after has been awarded a degree in international relations by the infamous Independente University [pt icon [http://diarioeconomico.sapo.pt/edicion/diarioeconomico/edicion_impresa/destaque/pt/desarrollo/1078050.html Armando Vara demite-se da Caixa Geral de Depósitos se Santos Ferreira vencer] , Diário Económico] [pt icon Céu Neves, Francisco Almeida Leite e Maria João Gago, [http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/04/06/tema/novo_reitor_independente_trabalha_a_.html Novo reitor da Independente trabalha sob a direcção de Vara] , Diário de Notícias, 6th April 2007] ), and was deputy to the Portuguese Assembleia da República for several years. In addition, Vara is a former Secretary of State, Minister of Home Affairs, and Minister of Youth and Sports in the Portuguese Government, always by the Socialists. [pt icon Pedro Correia, [http://dn.sapo.pt/2005/08/03/tema/de_funcionario_balcao_a_administrado.html De funcionário de balcão a administrador] , Diário de Notícias, 3rd August 2005] In January 2008, he was appointed vice-chairman of Millennium bcp bank.

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