Pedro Meireles
Pedro Meireles | |
|---|---|
 Pedro Meireles, Prime Minister of Pelaxia | |
| Prime Minister | |
| In office 2021 – Incumbent | |
| Preceded by | Victor Canales |
| Prime Minister | |
| In office 2007–2012 | |
| Preceded by | Jacobo Mora |
| Succeeded by | Ivo Cúcuphas |
| Prime Minister | |
| In office 1997–2002 | |
| Preceded by | Damián Escoto |
| Succeeded by | Nicolás Materra |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Pelaxian |
| Political party | Movimiento Social-Obrero |
Pedro Meireles is a Pelaxian lawyer and politician serving as the 119th and current Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Pelaxia. Previously, he was the secretary of state for parliamentary affairs from 1995 to 1997, first elected as Prime Minister from 1997 to 2002, then again Prime Minister from 2007 to 2012, and later relected in 2021. He was elected as secretary general of the Movimiento Social-Obrero in September 2018.
Education
Meireles was born in 1961 in Yelmo de Piedra, Albalitor. Meireles is half Pelaxian and half Kelekonian; his father was born in Malentina to a Kelekonian family. In Malentina, Meireles is affectionately known as Babush, a word in Kelekonian meaning a young loved one.
Meireles graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Alabalitor in the 1980s, when he first entered politics and was elected as a Socialist deputy to the municipal council. He completed the mandatory military service in 1987 and later practiced law briefly from 1988, before entering politics full-time.