Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

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Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
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Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
2019
ConstituencyPortugal
Minister of the Premiership and of Administrative Modernisation
In office
26 November 2015 – 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa[1]
Personal details
Born (1952-08-23) 23 August 1952 (age 69)
Quelimane, Mozambique[2]
Political partySocialist 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.[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 .[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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Maria Manuel Leitão Marques". portugal.gov.pt. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. ^ "MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES". revistafrontline.com (in Portuguese). 6 November 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  4. ^ Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (May 15, 2019), The 14 women who could take over the EU Politico Europe.


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