Portuguese+Republic

By Tania Rodriguez toc =My Country Facts=

Official country name:
Portuguese Republic

Year that country joied the UN :
14/12/1955

People:
They are called Portuguese
 * 1.What are the people from the country called(i.e Mali-Malian, Spain-Spanish)**

Portugues(official),Mirandese(Official, but locally used)
 * 2.What is the official language?What other languages do people speak?**

Roman Catholic 84.5%, Chrisitan 2.2%, other 0.3%, unkown 9% none 3.9%.
 * 3.What is the most practised religion?**

The population of the countri is about 10.7 million (2009)
 * 4.What is the population of the country?**

Goverment:
The name of the leader of the country is Anibel Cavaco Silva, since the 9th of March 2006.
 * 1.What is the name of the leader of the country?**

The country is ruled by a republic parliamentary democracy.Is a political system in which the legislature (parliament) selects the goverment- a prime minister premier or chancellor along with the cabinet minister- accordin to party strenght as expressed in elections, by this system, the goverment adquires a dual responsability to the people as well as to the parliament.
 * 2.What type of govermet is the coutry ruled by(i.e monarchy, democracy, dictatorship?)**

The main politicals parties are: the Democratic and the social center(Paulo Protas), the socialist party ( Jose Socrates),the social democratic party ( Pedro Manuel) etc.
 * 3.What are the main political parties of the country ( socialist party, communist party, green party, republicans, democrats, etc?)**

It was called the Kingdom of Portugal sice 1143, but the 5th of October 1910, it became independent as a republic country.
 * 4.Was your country ever a colony?If so, when did it ain its independece?**

President is elect for five years term, the las ones were in January 2006 so the next will be in January 2011.
 * 5.When Prtugal is going to hold the next elections?**

Geography:
the country is located in Southwester Europe, boarderig the North Atlantic ocean, and the west of Spain.
 * 1.Where is the country?(i.e. continentr and reion, for Central Europe or North Africa)**

West Spain border the country.
 * 2.What other nations border the country?**

There isn't any desert, there are mountains at th north of the Tagus River and rollings plains in both.
 * 3.What kid of landscape does the country have?**

Azores can produce earthquakes.
 * 4.Are there any natural hazards?**

Economy
The most common sector of employment are services (60%) for example teachers and lawyer
 * 1.What is the most common sector of employment in the country (i.e. business, agriculture and farming, goverment, jobs, etc)**

The unemployment rate in my country is 9.5% in 2009
 * 2.What is the uemployment rate in your country ( by percentage)?**

The biggest export partner is Spain with 26.25%
 * 3.What is the biggest export partner Portugal has?**

That in Prtugal Azores can produce earthquakes
 * The most surprising thing I learned about my country was :**

=My Predictions=

I think that the position of my country refering to traffic of animals is that there is a law that forbide it, but there are still people that do it. Few years ago there were more people that traffic with animals but now this number has decrease, I think people do it because they need money, or they just do it because they like it and they want to do it. I think the police is not very interested in traffic of animals, so they don't care a lot about these people thats why people continious with animal's traffic.

I think Portugal isn't in favour abot chlid labor, although they have crated severals laws against chil labor, however there is always people that doesn't respect the laws, but few people, because participing in child labor have a sentence, Child labor is forbide because work for small children can jurt them, the most typical work s for small children are in factories or mines but in Portugal there are no factories mines, so most of the children that work do it in factories, doing phisycal work and they only do it for few money because thy really need it, There should be more vigilance to prevent child labor, and in the case of participing in child labor the sentece should be very hard.

=The Portuguese Republic Position Paper (1º Draft)=