The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a social democratic European political party.
The CDS –People's Party is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Portugal. It is characterized as being between the centre-right and right-wing of the political spectrum. In voting ballots,the party's name appears only as the People's Party,with the abbreviation CDS–PP unchanged.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
Pierre Moscovici is a French politician who served as the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs,Taxation and Customs from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 and as Minister for European Affairs between 1997 and 2002.
António Luís Santos da Costa is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as the 118th prime minister of Portugal from 2015 to 2024,presiding over the XXI (2015–2019),XXII (2019–2022) and XXIII Constitutional Governments (2022–2024). Following this,Costa will take up the post of President of the European Council in December 2024.
Harlem Jean-Philippe Désir is a French politician. First widely known as a community activist and as the first president of SOS Racisme in the 1980s,he subsequently entered politics in the 1990s,first in Génération Écologie then in the Socialist Party where he rose to the rank of First Secretary. He served as MEP from 1999 to 2014 and then served in the government of France as Secretary of State for European Affairs from 2014 to 2017. Since 2017,he has served as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.
Hannes Swoboda is an Austrian social democratic politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2014. Within the Parliament,he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and from January 2012 to June 2014,he was also the President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
The Third Portuguese Republic is a period in the history of Portugal corresponding to the current democratic regime installed after the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974,that put an end to the paternal autocratic regime of Estado Novo of António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano. It was initially characterized by constant instability and was threatened by the possibility of a civil war during the early post-revolutionary years. A new constitution was drafted,censorship was prohibited,free speech declared,political prisoners were released and major Estado Novo institutions were closed. Eventually the country granted independence to its African colonies and begun a process of democratization that led to the accession of Portugal to the EEC in 1986.
Christos Papoutsis is a Greek socialist politician who has served as Minister for Citizen Protection (2010–12),Mercantile Marine Minister (2000–01) Member of the European Parliament (1984–95) and European Commissioner for Energy and Euratom Supply Agency,Small business and Tourism (1995–1999). He has also served as the Secretary of the Parliamentary Group and Parliamentary Spokesman for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK),the majority party in Greece (2009–2010). He also was candidate for Mayor of Athens (2002).
Pedro Manuel Mamede Passos Coelho is a Portuguese politician and university guest lecturer who was the 117th prime minister of Portugal,in office from 2011 to 2015. He was the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) between 2010 and 2018.
The 2011 Portuguese legislative election was held on 5 June,to elect all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic. Pedro Passos Coelho led the centre-right Social Democratic Party to victory over the Socialist Party,led by incumbent Prime Minister JoséSócrates. Despite a historically low turnout of less than 60 percent of registered voters,the right-wing won a clear mandate,winning nearly 130 MPs,more than 56 percent of the seats,and just over 50 percent of the vote. While the People's Party,continuing the trend they began in 2009,earned their best score since 1983,the Social Democrats exceeded the expected result in the opinion polls and won the same number of seats as they did in 2002,when the PSD was led by JoséManuel Durão Barroso. Of the twenty districts of the country,Pedro Passos Coelho's party won seventeen,including Lisbon,Porto,Faro,Portalegre,Castelo Branco,Coimbra,Santarém and the Azores,that tend to favor the Socialist Party.
Maria João RodriguesGOIH is a Portuguese academic and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament. She was Vice-President of the Group of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) from 2014 until 2019,and since 2017 she is also President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS),succeeding Italian politician Massimo d'Alema.
Paulo Artur dos Santos Castro de Campos Rangel is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024,in the XXIV Constitutional Government,led by Luís Montenegro.
Peter Simon was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Germany from 2009 until 2019.
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously served as Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation in the cabinet of Prime Minister António Costa since 26 November 2015.
Manuel Pedro Cunha da Silva Pereira,better known as Pedro Silva Pereira,is a Portuguese politician,lawyer and legal expert. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014.
DragoșPîslaru is a Romanian economist and politician of REPER who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He was previously a member of USR PLUS/USR. He also held the position of Minister of Labor,Family,Social Protection and the Elderly in the government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloșfrom 18 April 2016,until 4 January 2017.
João Rodrigo Reis Carvalho Leão is a Portuguese economist,university professor,and politician. He served as Minister of Finance in the government of Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal,sworn in on 15 June 2020.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,who is barred from running for a third term.
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.
