PSD Vice President Margarida Balceiro Lopez will take over the management of the Ministry of Youth and Modernization, which was not in the previous executive body, according to the list of ministers proposed by Luis Montenegro and accepted by the President of the Republic.
Margarida Balseiro Lopez, 34 years old, has a law degree, was a deputy from 2015 to 2022 and is one of the six vice-presidents of the PSD board. According to observerMargarida breaks the record of Marina Gonçalves, to whom António Costa handed the housing portfolio, and becomes the youngest minister to take office.
Between 2018 and 2020 he was the leader of the Social Democratic Youth and currently works for an international audit and consulting company.
As an MP, she was a member of several parliamentary committees, in particular the Budget and Finance Committee and the Education, Science, Youth and Sports Committee.
She holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon (2011), a Master’s degree in Law and Management from the Catholic University of Portugal (2014), and a PhD in Taxation from the Faculty of Law from the Catholic University of Portugal (2021). ) and PhD in Law at the Portuguese Catholic University (from 2021).
In the previous PS government, led by António Costa, youth were housed in the State Secretariat, which also dealt with sports, and was under the control of the Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs.
The XXIII government also had a Secretary of State for Digitalization and Administrative Modernization, under the direct leadership of Prime Minister António Costa.
The secretaries of state of the XXIV Constitutional Government are still unknown.
Prime Minister-designate Luis Montenegro and the ministers of the XXIV Constitutional Government will take office on Tuesday, and the secretaries of state two days later, with debates on the government program scheduled for April 11 and 12.