Maria Manuel Leitão Marques Explained

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:2 July 2019
Term End:15 July 2024
Constituency:Portugal
Office1:Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation
Primeminister1:António Costa[1]
Term Start1:26 November 2015
Term End1:18 February 2019
Birth Date:23 August 1952
Birth Place:Quelimane, Portuguese Mozambique
Party:Socialist Party

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (born 23 August 1952) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party[2] 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 .

Career in national politics

From 2015 until 2019, Leitão Marques represented the Viseu constituency in the Assembly of the Republic. Marques was the Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernization under the XVIII and XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal.[3]

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

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. In this capacity, she is the parliament’s rapporteur on the European Commission’s 2022 proposal for a ban on the import and export of products made using forced labour.[5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Leitão Marques is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: António Costa indigitado: a lista dos novos ministros de Portugal. Radio and Television of Portugal. 24 November 2015. Christopher. Marques. pt. 13 September 2018.
  2. Web site: MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES. 6 November 2017. revistafrontline.com. 8 September 2018. pt.
  3. Web site: Maria Manuel Leitão Marques. portugal.gov.pt. 8 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180906124719/https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc21/ministries/presidency-and-of-administrative-modernisation. 6 September 2018. live.
  4. Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (May 15, 2019), The 14 women who could take over the EU Politico Europe.
  5. Silvia Ellena (12 April 2023), Progress on forced labour products ban too slow, says leading rapporteur Euractiv.
  6. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-artificial-intelligence-and-digital.pdf Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital