Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
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Maria Manuel Leitão Marques | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 2019 | |
Constituency | Portugal |
Minister of the Premiership and of Administrative Modernisation | |
In office 26 November 2015 – 2019 | |
Prime Minister | António Costa[1] |
Personal details | |
Born | Quelimane, Mozambique[2] | 23 August 1952
Political party | Socialist Party |
Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (born 23 August 1952) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party[3] who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously served as Minister of the Premiership and of Administrative Modernisation since 26 November 2015[update].[2] From 2015 until 2019, she represented the Viseu constituency in the Assembly of the Republic. Marques was the Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernization under the XVIII and XVII Constitutional Government of Portugal.[2]
In the 2019 European elections, Leitão Marques ran on the list of Prime Minister António Costa's Socialist Party.[4] She has since been serving as vice chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
References
- ^ Marques, Christopher (24 November 2015). "António Costa indigitado: a lista dos novos ministros de Portugal" (in Portuguese). Radio and Television of Portugal. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ a b c "Maria Manuel Leitão Marques". portugal.gov.pt. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ "MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES". revistafrontline.com (in Portuguese). 6 November 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (May 15, 2019), The 14 women who could take over the EU Politico Europe.