PS Secretary General Pedro Nuno Santos will nominate MP Alexandru Leitan for the presidency of the party’s parliamentary group, a Socialist source told Lusa this Friday.
The meeting of the PS parliamentary group, which will vote on the name of Alexandra Leitan, will take place on Wednesday, the same source said.
If elected, Alexandre Leitan will replace Eurico Brillante Dias, who has been the parliamentary leader of the PS since 2022.
If elected, Alexandre Leitan will replace Eurico Brillante Dias, who has been the parliamentary leader of the Socialist Party since 2022. She will also become the second woman to head the Socialist bench, after Ana Catarina Mendes (2019-2022).
Alexandra Leitan is currently a member of the PS National Secretariat and was the party’s campaign program coordinator for the last legislative elections.
She was Minister of State Modernization and Public Administration from 2019 to 2022, and Deputy Secretary of State and Education from 2015 to 2019. In the last legislature, as an MP, she was the chair of the parliamentary committee on transparency and the status of MPs.
Alexandra Leitan is one of the commentators on the CNN and TSF program “The Uncertainty Principle,” debating on Sundays with social democrat Pacheco Pereira and centrist António Lobo Xavier.
In 2022, the then PS leader and Prime Minister António Costa already offered the position of leader of parliament to Alexandra Leitan, but she refused.
In statements to the newspaper Público at the time, the MP revealed that she was “honored by the invitation” but said she decided to decline because she believed she had a “more executive profile” and had “never been an MP”. .
Author: Lusa
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