Socialist Party (Portugal)

The **Socialist Party** is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded in-exile on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by members from the Portuguese Socialist Action during the Estado Novo era. Partido Socialista is a member of the Socialist International and Progressive Alliance. It is also a member of Party of European Socialists regionally in Europe. It has nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament.

The part is considered centre-left and is one of the two major parties in Portuguese politics, its rival being the Social Democratic Party (PSD) on the centre-right. The leader of the PS is José Luís Carneiro.

## List of Secretaries-general of the Socialist Party

|#|Portrait|Name|Took office|Left office|Election|colspan="2"|Prime Minister|Ref.|||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"||rowspan="12"|Mário Soares <small>(1924–2017)</small>|rowspan="12"|19 April 1973|rowspan="12"|13 June 1985|rowspan="12"|–|style="background-color: "||Marcelo Caetano <small>(1968–1974)</small>|rowspan="12"||
|style="background-color: "||Adelino da Palma Carlos <small>(1974)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Vasco Gonçalves <small>(1974–1975)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||José Pinheiro de Azevedo <small>(1975–1976)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||_himself_ <small>(1976–1978)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Alfredo Nobre da Costa <small>(1978)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Carlos Mota Pinto <small>(1978–1979)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo <small>(1979–1980)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Francisco Sá Carneiro <small>(1980)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Diogo Freitas do Amaral <small>(1980–1981)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||Francisco Pinto Balsemão <small>(1981–1983)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||_himself_ <small>(1983–1985)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"||style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"|António de Almeida Santos _(interim)_ <small>(1926–2016)</small>|style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"|19 June 1985|style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"|13 November 1985|style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"|1985|style="background-color: "||Mário Soares <small>(1985)</small>|style="background-color: #E6E6AA" rowspan="2"||
|style="background-color: "||rowspan="5"|Aníbal Cavaco Silva <small>(1985–1995)</small>||||||||||||
||António Macedo _(interim)_ <small>(1906–1989)</small>|13 November 1985|29 June 1986|–|rowspan="3" style="background-color: "||||||||||
||Vítor Constâncio <small>(b. 1943)</small>|29 June 1986|16 January 1989|1986|||||||||||
||Jorge Sampaio <small>(1939–2021)</small>|16 January 1989|23 February 1992|1989|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|António Guterres <small>(b. 1949)</small>|rowspan="2"|23 February 1992|rowspan="2"|19 January 2002|rowspan="2"|1992|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|||
|style="background-color: "||_himself_ <small>(1995–2002)</small>|||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues <small>(b. 1949)</small>|rowspan="3"|19 January 2002|rowspan="3"|27 September 2004|rowspan="3"|2002|style="background-color: "||António Guterres <small>(2002)</small>|rowspan="3"||
|style="background-color: "||José Durão Barroso <small>(2002–2004)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|Pedro Santana Lopes <small>(2004–2005)</small>||||||||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|José Sócrates <small>(b. 1957)</small>|rowspan="3"|27 September 2004|rowspan="3"|23 July 2011|rowspan="3"|2004|style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|||
|style="background-color: "||_himself_ <small>(2005–2011)</small>|||||||||||||
|style="background-color: "||rowspan="4"|Pedro Passos Coelho <small>(2011–2015)</small>||||||||||||
||António José Seguro <small>(b. 1962)</small>|23 July 2011|28 September 2014|2011|rowspan="2" style="background-color: "||||||||||
||Maria de Belém Roseira _(interim)_ <small>(b. 1949)</small>|28 September 2014|22 November 2014|–|||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|António Costa <small>(b. 1961)</small>|rowspan="2"|22 November 2014|rowspan="2"|7 January 2024|rowspan="2"|2014|style="background-color: "||rowspan="2"|||
|style="background-color: "||_himself_ <small>(2015–2024)</small>|||||||||||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|Pedro Nuno Santos <small>(b. 1977)</small>|rowspan="2"|7 January 2024|rowspan="2"|24 May 2025|rowspan="2"|2023|style="background-color: "||António Costa <small>(2024)</small>|rowspan="2"||
|style="background-color: "||rowspan="3"|Luís Montenegro <small>(since 2024)</small>||||||||||||
||Carlos César _(interim)_ <small>(b. 1956)</small>|24 May 2025|28 June 2025|–|rowspan="2" style="background-color: "||||||||||
||José Luís Carneiro <small>(b. 1971)</small>|28 June 2025|_present_|2025|||||||||||

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: Socialist Party
- **native name**: Partido Socialista
- **logo**: PS Logo (Text version).png
- **logo size**: 200px
- **president**: Carlos César
- **secretary general**: José Luís Carneiro
- **ideology**: Social democracy
- **headquarters**: Largo do Rato 2, 1269–143 Lisbon
- **website**: [http://www.ps.pt/ ps.pt]
- **country**: Portugal
- **abbreviation**: PS
- **predecessor**: Acção Socialista Portuguesa
- **newspaper**: _Acção Socialista_
- **student wing**: Estudantes Socialistas
- **membership**: 74,073
- **membership year**: 2021
- **position**: Centre-left politics, Centre-left
- **anthem**: "Socialismo em Liberdade"

- **leader1 name**: Mário Soares
- **seats2 title**: European Parliament
- **leader1 title**: Founder
- **seats1 title**: Assembly of the Republic (Portugal), Assembly of the Republic
- **wing1 title**: Women's wing
- **wing1**: National Department of the Socialist Women