Hugo Soares was elected parliamentary leader of the PSD with more than 98% of the votes.

PSD General Secretary Hugo Soares was today elected leader of the Social Democratic parliamentary group with 98.7% of the vote, according to an official parliamentary source.

77 of the 78 PSD deputies voted in the elections – there was no parliamentarian to replace José Cesario from the Fora da Europa circle – and there were 76 votes in favor and one blank.

Thanks to this result, Hugo Soares received a vote at the level of the best current PSD President and Prime Minister Luis Montenegro.

Montenegro was elected parliamentary leader of the SDP in June 2011 with 86% of the vote, was re-elected in October 2013 with 87% of the vote and in November 2015 with almost 98% of the vote, always without opposition.

Hugo Soares will have 12 vice-presidents, including the former president of the Order of Doctors Miguel Guimarães as the first “vice-president”, municipal coordinator Pedro Alves, JSD leader Alexandre Posu and Hugo Carneiro, former leader of Reka Ruy.

Four “deputies” are leaving the former leadership of the college, headed by Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, now the Minister of Finance and State: Alexandre Poço, Hugo Carneiro, Andreia Neto and Hugo Oliveira.

The remaining elected new vice-presidents, in addition to Miguel Guimarães and Pedro Alves, are Regina Bastos, Silverio Regalado, Isaura Morais, Cristovan Norte, João Valle e Azevedo and António Rodrigues.

Miguel Guimarães was one of the independent deputies included in the list of deputies of the Democratic Alliance (the electoral coalition between PSD, CDS-PP and PPM), leading the list from Porto, as did João Valle e Azevedo, an economist. and a member of Banco do Portugal, who was number five in Lisbon.

Almiro Moreira, Aveiro’s choice, and Dulcinea Moura, head of the Guarda list, were elected secretaries of the parliamentary group.

Hugo Soares was already the parliamentary leader of the PSD, elected on July 19, 2017 with 85.4% of the votes, and succeeded Luis Montenegro.

However, just seven years later, in February 2018, he called early elections for the parliamentary group after the new PSD president, Rui Rio, expressed a desire to work with a different leadership, with Fernando Negrao becoming his successor. more than 40% of the board’s votes.

Hugo Soares is from Braga, born on March 2, 1983 (he turned 41 during the last election campaign) and has been Montenegro’s right-hand man for the past few years.

President of the Social Democratic Youth from 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from June 2011 to October 2019.

A lawyer by profession and business administrator, he returned to the forefront of political life after the victory of the current PSD president in the 2022 internal elections and took up the position of secretary general. In the legislative elections on March 10, he headed the list from Braga.