Secretaries to be sworn in at Palácio de Ajuda at 6pm
President Marcelo has now formally accepted the list of 41 secretaries of State proposed by Portugal’s new prime minister Luís Montenegro, for the XXIV Government.
The swearing-in of the various men and women is scheduled for 6pm this evening at the Palácio de Ajuda, where the government was sworn in on Wednesday.
Tomorrow, the entire government is due to have an informal meeting in Óbidos, Leiria district.
As Lusa explains, the line up of new secretaries shows that Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has taken back control of European affairs (which passed in 2022 to office of prime minister António Costa).
According to a note published on the official website of the Presidency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will thus have three portfolios: European affairs, foreign affairs and Cooperation, and Portuguese communities abroad.
There is no secretary of State for internationalisation, as there had been previously.
The list of 41 names which have all been put through the ‘rigorous 36-point screening process’ is as follows:
Ministry of State and Foreign Affairs
Secretary of State for European Affairs – Inês Carmelo Rosa Calado Lopes DomingosSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation – Nuno Ricardo Ribeiro de Carvalho de Azevedo SampaioSecretary of State for Portuguese Communities – José de Almeida Cesário
Ministry of State and Finance
Secretary of State for the Budget – José Maria Gonçalves Pereira Brandão de BritoState Secretary for Tax Affairs – Cláudia Maria dos Reis Duarte Melo de CarvalhoSecretary of State for the Treasury and Finance – João Alexandre da Silva LopesSecretary of State for Public Administration – Marisa da Luz Bento Garrido Marques Oliveira
Ministry of the Presidency
Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Paulo José Martins Raposo Lopes Marcelo
State Secretary for the Presidency – Rui Armindo da Costa Freitas
Ministry of Territorial Cohesion
Secretary of State for Regional Development – Hélder Manuel Gomes dos Reis
Secretary of State for Local Administration – Hernâni Dias
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs – Carlos Eduardo Almeida de Abreu Amorim
Secretary of State for Sport – Pedro Miguel Pereira Dias
Ministry of National Defence
Assistant Secretary of State for National Defence – Álvaro Castelo Branco
Secretary of State for National Defence – Ana Isabel Xavier
Ministry of Justice
State Secretary for Justice – Maria José Dias da Mota Magalhães de Barros
Secretary of State for Justice – Maria Clara Figueiredo
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Secretary of State for Home Affairs – Telmo Augusto Janes de Noronha Côrrea
Secretary of State for Civil Protection – Paulo Simões Ribeiro
Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation
Deputy Secretary of State for Education – Manuel Alexandre Mateus Homem Cristo
Secretary of State for Education – Pedro Tiago Dantas Machado da Cunha
Secretary of State for Science – Ana Maria Severino de Almeida Paiva
Ministry of Health
Secretary of State for Health – Ana Margarida Pinheiro Povo
Secretary of State for Health Management – Cristina Alexandra Rodrigues da Cruz Vaz Tomé
Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing
Secretary of State for Infrastructure – Hugo Morato Alface do Espírito Santo
Secretary of State for Mobility – Cristina Maria dos Santos Pinto Dias
Secretary of State for Housing – Patrícia Gonçalves Costa de Machado Santos
Ministry of the Economy
Secretary of State for Tourism – Pedro Manuel Monteiro Machado
State Secretary for the Economy – João Rui da Silva Gomes Ferreira
Secretary of State for the Sea – Lídia Bulcão
Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security
Secretary of State for Labour – Adriano Rafael Sousa Moreira
Assistant Secretary of State for Labour and Social Security – Jorge Manuel de Almeida Campino
Secretary of State for Social Action and Inclusion – Clara Marques Mendes
Ministry of the Environment and Energy
Secretary of State for the Environment – Emídio Ferreira dos Santos Sousa
Secretary of State for Energy – Maria João Pereira
Ministry of Youth and Modernisation
Secretary of State for Equality – Carla da Cruz Mouro
Secretary of State for Modernisation and Digitalisation – Alberto Manuel Rodrigues da Silva
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Secretary of State for Agriculture – João Manuel Moura Rodrigues
Secretary of State for Fisheries – Cláudia Sofia Gomes Monteiro de Aguiar
Secretary of State for Forestry – Rui Miguel Ladeira Pereira
Ministry of Culture
Secretary of State for Culture – Maria de Lurdes dos Anjos Craveiro.
This number of secretaries of State tallies with the number of the last PS Socialist government.
Source: LUSA
