Raised in Contenças, in the municipality of Mangualde, he studied at the Colégio de Santa Maria e São José in that town.

His paternal grandfather, Raul de Abrantes Coelho, a supporter of the Estado Novo, was even on the National Union list.

An engineering student at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra, he was a member of the extreme left before and after the Carnation Revolution.

He was civilly married at the 10th Civil Registry Office in Lisbon on 22 August 1975 to Fortunata Cecília Fernandes da Silva Seixas.

That same year, he was appointed chief of staff to the Secretary of State for Transport in the 9th Constitutional Government of Portugal, Francisco Murteira Nabo (1983–1985).

He was a director of CONGETMARK, a guest lecturer in Public and Political Communication at the Instituto Superior de Comunicação Empresarial (ISCEM) and a consultant.

The company produces Serra da Estrela cheese and, according to the press, has formalised agreements with the SONAE, Jerónimo Martins and El Corte Inglés groups, once the Protected Designation of Origin certification process has been completed.

When the programme changed its name to Circulatura do Quadrado and its channel to TVI24 in February 2019, he remained a commentator until July 2020, having been replaced by Ana Catarina Mendes from September 2020.