The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time with the Portuguese Socialist Action. The PS is a member of the Socialist International,Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists,and has nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament. It has been the governing party of Portugal since November 2015,subsequently winning the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections.
António Luís Santos da Costa is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who has served as the 119th prime minister of Portugal since 2015,presiding over the XXI (2015–2019),XXII (2019–2022) and XXIII Constitutional Governments. He is currently in the position as caretaker,having resigned on 7 November 2023 following an investigation into a corruption scandal.
Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 to 3 July 2006. He also served briefly as Prime Minister in an interim capacity in the early 1980s,after the death of Francisco de SáCarneiro.
Henrique Teixeira de Queirós de Barros was a Portuguese politician.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
Catarina Soares Martins is a Portuguese politician and actress. She was the national coordinator of the Left Bloc from 11 November 2012 until 28 May 2023,and has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic for the Left Bloc since 2009. She trained as a linguist and is active in theater.
Marta Alexandra Fartura Braga Temido de Almeida Simões is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Health under Prime Minister António Costa,between 15 October 2018 and 10 September 2022. She has submitted her resignation from the post on 30 August 2022 and ended her functions on 10 September 2022.
Early legislative elections were held on 30 January 2022 in Portugal to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election.
Elza Maria Henriques Deus Pais is an academic specialising in sociology,who is a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal and a former Secretary of State for Equality.
Ana Catarina Veiga dos Santos Mendonça Mendes is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 1995 and,from 2019,led the party in the National Assembly. In March 2022,she was appointed Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the XXIII Constitutional Government.
Isabel de Lima Mayer Alves Moreira is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2011. She is known for her campaigns in favour of LGBT rights.
Maria Lúcia Amaral is a Portuguese lawyer,university professor,politician and judge. She was vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Portugal and is Portugal's 10th Ombudsman,being the first woman to hold this post.
Pedro Nuno de Oliveira Santos is a Portuguese economist and politician,who is the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party. Santos previously held positions in the Portuguese Government under António Costa,first as Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs,from November 2015 to February 2019,and afterwards as Minister of Infrastructure and Housing,from February 2019 to January 2023.
Joana SáPereira is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019.
Susana Amador is a Portuguese jurist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she briefly became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in 2005. She was elected to the Assembly again in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 and 2022. Between 2005 and 2015 she was a member of the Lisbon Metropolitan Council and mayor of Odivelas,a municipality in the Lisbon area. In 2019 she served as the Secretary of State for Education.
Ana Sofia Antunes is a Portuguese politician who,from 2015 to 2024,held the government position of Secretary of State for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Antunes was born blind.
Isabel Oneto is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic from 2009 to 2015 and from 2019 to the present,representing Porto. Between 2017 and 2019 she served as Assistant Secretary of State and Internal Administration.
Olga Silvestre is a Portuguese politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Silvestre was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Leiria constituency. She was re-elected in 2022.
The 2023 Portuguese Socialist Party leadership election was held on 15 and 16 December 2023. The leadership ballot was called after Prime Minister and Socialist Party Secretary-General António Costa resigned from office on 7 November 2023. The winner of this election will lead the Socialist Party into the 2024 legislative election.
Leiria is one of the 22 multi-member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic,the national legislature of Portugal. The constituency was established in 1976 when the Assembly of the Republic was established by the constitution following the restoration of democracy. It is conterminous with the district of Leiria. The constituency currently elects ten of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 legislative election it had 413,063 registered electors.
