[3] He has two postgraduate degrees, one in Rural Sociology (Instituto Superiro de Agronomia) and the other in Tourism Management (Universidade da Madeira).
[4] Caixa Geral de Depósitos forgave a debt of 66,000 euros owed by Carlos Pereira, who was the rapporteur of a commission of inquiry into the bank.
[7] The PS came second and Pereira was elected as a city councillor, ending his term prematurely in 2007, after a court ruling, for failing to submit his tax return on time.
He returned to the ALRAM between the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, this time temporarily suspending his mandate in the AR in order to attend the vote on a motion of censure against Miguel Albuquerque's government.
[15] In Parliament, he is one of the vice-presidents of the PS parliamentary group and belongs to the European Affairs, Economy, Innovation and Public Works and Inquiry into the Recapitalization of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and the Management of the Bank committees and is an alternate member of the National Defence Committee.