The President of the Republic today accepted the list of 17 ministers proposed by the prime minister-designate, Luís Montenegro, for the XXIV Constitutional Government.
The inauguration of the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government is scheduled for Tuesday and that of the secretaries of State for two days later.
Social Democrat MEPs Paulo Rangel, Maria da Graça Carvalho and José Manuel Fernandes will leave office next Monday to join the XXIV Constitutional Government.
A party source said that the three PSD MEPs will cease their duties one day before the executive takes office, the composition of which was announced today, and in which they will be responsible for Foreign Affairs, Environment and Energy, and Agriculture and Fisheries, respectively. .
The list of names proposed by Luís Montenegro for ministers of the XXIII Constitutional Government is as follows:
Prime Minister
Luis Montenegro
Minister of State and Foreign Affairs
Paulo Rangel
Minister of State and Finance
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
Minister of the Presidency
António Leitão Amaro
Deputy Minister and Territorial Cohesion
Manuel Castro Almeida
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
Pedro Duarte
Minister of National Defense
Nuno Melo
Minister of Justice
Rita Judice
Minister of Internal Administration
Margarida Blasco
Minister of Education, Science and Innovation
Fernando Alexandre
Minister of Health
Ana Paula Martins
Minister of Infrastructure and Housing
Miguel Pinto Luz
Economy minister
Pedro Reis
Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security
Maria do Rosário Palma Ramalho
Minister of Environment and Energy
Maria da Graça Carvalho
Minister of Youth and Modernization
Margarida Balseiro Lopes
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
José Manuel Fernandes
Minister of Culture
Delilah Rodrigues
PROFILE: Nuno Melo, from Camarate commissions of inquiry to Minister of Defense
The centrist leader, Nuno Melo, who chaired one of the commissions of inquiry into Camarate, arrives at the Government as Minister of Defense through the hand of the prime minister-designate, Luís Montenegro, after the PSD and CDS competed together in the legislative elections.
Nuno Melo, 58 years old, was born in Joane, Vila Nova de Famalicão, and arrived at the Assembly of the Republic in the VIII legislature, in 1999, elected by Braga, a constituency for which he ran in the following two legislatures, being elected parliamentary leader in July 2004 and vice-president of parliament in 2007.
PROFILE: Economist and former Secretary of State is chosen to lead Ministry of Education
Economist and former Deputy Secretary of State for Internal Administration Fernando Alexandre was Luís Montenegro’s choice for Minister of Education, Science and Innovation.
The holder of the Education portfolio in the XXIV Constitutional Government was part of the first executive led by Pedro Passos Coelho, between 2013 and 2015, having resigned due to alleged incompatibilities with the then minister Anabela Rodrigues.
Born in 1972, Fernando Alexandre has a PhD in Economics from the University of London, Birkbeck College, and teaches at the University of Minho, where he served as pro-rector, president of the School of Economics and Management and director of the Economics department.
PROFILE: José Manuel Fernandes, from the most influential MEP to fisheries and agriculture
Born in Vila Verde, he has worked in Brussels, having been present at several European Parliament actions, as a co-rapporteur, and was even considered the most influential Portuguese MEP.
He has a weekly program on Antena Minho radio, called ‘Europe for Minho’, where he addresses current issues of national and regional interest.
He has a degree in engineering and was also president of the Vila Verde City Council.
