Leader of the Opposition (Portugal)

The **Leader of the Opposition** () is an unofficial honorary title given to the leader of the largest party in the Assembly of the Republic.

## List of leaders of the opposition

|Date|colspan="2"|Main opposition party|style="width:255px;" colspan="2"|Party Leader|style="width:220px;" colspan="2"|Prime Minister|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|23 July 1976|||||||
|rowspan="4"|PSD||**Francisco Sá Carneiro**||||
|rowspan="4"|Mário Soares <small>(1976–1978)</small>||||||
|16 April 1977|||**António de Sousa Franco**||||
|15 April 1978|||**José Menéres Pimentel**||||
|2 July 1978|||**Francisco Sá Carneiro**||||
|rowspan="6"|29 August 1978||||||
|rowspan="6"|PS|rowspan="6"||rowspan="6"|**Mário Soares**||
|Alfredo Nobre da Costa <small>(1978)</small>|||||||
|Carlos Mota Pinto <small>(1978–1979)</small>|||||||
|Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo <small>(1979–1980)</small>|||||||
|Francisco Sá Carneiro <small>(1980)</small>|||||||
|Diogo Freitas do Amaral <small>(1980–1981)</small>|||||||
|Francisco Pinto Balsemão <small>(1981–1983)</small>|||||||
|9 June 1983|||||||
|PCP||**Álvaro Cunhal**|||||
|Mário Soares <small>(1983–1985)</small>|||||||
|style="background-color: #E6E6AA"|4 November 1985||||||
|rowspan="5"|PS|style="background-color: #E6E6AA"||style="background-color: #E6E6AA"|**António de Almeida Santos** <small>(interim)</small>||
|rowspan="5"|Aníbal Cavaco Silva <small>(1985–1995)</small>||||||
|style="background-color: #E6E6AA"|13 November 1985|style="background-color: #E6E6AA"||style="background-color: #E6E6AA"|**António Macedo** <small>(interim)</small>||
|29 June 1986||**Vítor Constâncio**|||||
|6 November 1988||**Jorge Sampaio**|||||
|23 February 1992||**António Guterres**|||||
|28 October 1995|||||||
|rowspan="3"|PSD||**Fernando Nogueira**||||
|rowspan="3"|António Guterres <small>(1995–2002)</small>||||||
|29 March 1996||**Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa**|||||
|1 May 1999||**José Manuel Durão Barroso**|||||
|rowspan="2"|6 April 2002||||||
|rowspan="3"|PS|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues**||
|José Manuel Durão Barroso <small>(2002–2004)</small>|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Pedro Santana Lopes <small>(2004–2005)</small>||||||
|24 September 2004||**José Sócrates**|||||
|12 March 2005|||||||
|rowspan="5"|PSD||**Pedro Santana Lopes**||||
|rowspan="5"|José Sócrates <small>(2005–2011)</small>||||||
|10 April 2005||**Luís Marques Mendes**|||||
|28 September 2007||**Luís Filipe Menezes**|||||
|31 May 2008||**Manuela Ferreira Leite**|||||
|26 March 2010||**Pedro Passos Coelho**|||||
|21 June 2011|||||||
|rowspan="4"|PS||**José Sócrates**||||
|rowspan="4"|Pedro Passos Coelho <small>(2011–2015)</small>||||||
|23 July 2011||**António José Seguro**|||||
|28 September 2014||**Maria de Belém Roseira** <small>(interim)</small>|||||
|22 November 2014||**António Costa**|||||
|26 November 2015|||||||
|rowspan="3"|PSD||**Pedro Passos Coelho**||||
|rowspan="3"|António Costa <small>(2015–2024)</small>||||||
|18 February 2018||**Rui Rio**|||||
|3 July 2022||**Luís Montenegro**|||||
|2 April 2024|||||||
|rowspan="2"|PS||**Pedro Nuno Santos**||||
|rowspan="3"|Luís Montenegro <small>(2024–present)</small>||||||
|24 May 2025||**Carlos César** <small>(interim)</small>|||||
|3 June 2025|||||||
|CH||**André Ventura**|||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Leader of the Opposition
- **native name**: <small></small>
- **insignia**: Logo Chega!.svg
- **insigniasize**: 50px
- **insigniacaption**: Logo of the biggest party in opposition
- **image**: André Ventura VIVA 24.jpg
- **imagesize**: 180px
- **incumbent**: Andre Ventura
- **incumbentsince**: 3 June 2025
- **appointer**: President of Portugal, President
- **salary**: €64,450 annually
- **termlength**: No fixed term
- **termlength qualified**: While leader of the largest political party not in government
- **formation**: 23 July 1976
- **inaugural**: Francisco de Sá Carneiro