Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

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Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
Member of the European Parliament
In office 2 July 2019 – 15 July 2024
Constituency	Portugal
Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation
In office 26 November 2015 – 18 February 2019
Prime Minister	António Costa[1]
Personal details
Born	(1952-08-23) 23 August 1952 (age 72) Quelimane, Portuguese Mozambique[2]
Political party	Socialist Party

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (born 23 August 1952) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party^[3] 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 since 26 November 2015^[update].^[2]

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.^[2]

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]

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