Ministry of State Reform

Ministry of State Reform

Ministério da Reforma do Estado
Logo of the Portuguese Government [a]
Ministry overview
Formed	1978 (1978)
Jurisdiction	Government of Portugal
Headquarters	Lisbon
Minister responsible	Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, Minister of State Reform
Website	portugal.gov.pt

The Ministry of State Reform is s a Portuguese government ministry, firstly created in 1978 by the II Constitutional Government, having had several designations ever since. ^[1]

It is responsible for coordinating public administration reform policies with a view to modernising and reducing bureaucracy.

Currently, it is led by Gonçalo Saraiva Matias. ^[2]

Name

The ministry has been created with different names throughout history:

• Ministry of Administrative Reform – 30 January 1978 to 9 June 1983
• Ministry of State Reform and Public Administration– 25 October 1999 to 6 April 2002
• Ministry of Administrative Modernization – 30 October 2015 to 26 October 2019
• Ministry of State Modernization and Public Administration – 26 October 2019 to 30 March 2022
• Ministry of Modernization – 2 April 2024 to 5 June 2025
• Ministry of State Reform – 5 June 2025 to present

List of Ministers

Colour key (for political parties)
Socialist Party (PS)    Social Democratic Party (PSD)    Democratic and Social Center (CDS)    Independent (Ind.)

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Party		Prime Minister
		Rui Pena (1939–2018)	30 January 1978	29 August 1978		CDS		Mário Soares
–	Vacant office		29 August 1978	9 January 1981				Alfredo Nobre da Costa
								Carlos Mota Pinto
								Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
								Francisco Sá Carneiro
								Diogo Freitas do Amaral
2		Eusébio Marques de Carvalho (b. 1945)	9 January 1981	4 June 1981		Ind.		Francisco Pinto Balsemão
	Vacant office		4 June 1981	4 September 1981
3		José Menéres Pimentel (1928–2014)	4 September 1981	9 June 1983		PSD
–	Vacant office		9 June 1983	25 October 1999				Mário Soares
								Aníbal Cavaco Silva
								António Guterres
4		Alberto Martins (b. 1945)	25 October 1999	6 April 2002		PS
–	Vacant office		6 April 2002	30 October 2015				José Durão Barroso
								Pedro Santana Lopes
								José Sócrates
								Pedro Passos Coelho
5		Rui Medeiros (b. 1963)	30 October 2015	26 November 2015		Ind.
6		Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (b. 1952)	26 November 2015	18 February 2019		PS		António Costa
7		Mariana Vieira da Silva (b. 1978)	18 February 2019	26 October 2019		PS
8		Alexandra Leitão (b. 1973)	26 October 2019	30 March 2022		PS
–	Vacant office		30 March 2022	2 April 2024
9		Margarida Balseiro Lopes (b. 1989)	2 April 2024	5 June 2025		PSD		Luís Montenegro
10		Gonçalo Saraiva Matias (b. 1979)	5 June 2025	present		Ind.

Notes

1. There is no official ministry logo yet

References

1. SAPO. "Governo: Modernização administrativa passa a Reforma do Estado. Educação, ciência e inovação sem mudanças". SAPO Tek (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-16.
2. Alves, Filipe (2025-06-04). "Gonçalo Saraiva Matias vai ser o novo ministro da Reforma do Estado". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-16.

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)