Ministry of State Reform
| Ministério da Reforma do Estado | |
 Logo of the Portuguese Government[a] | |
| Ministry overview | |
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| Formed | 1978 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Portugal |
| Headquarters | Lisbon |
| Minister responsible |
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| Website | portugal.gov.pt |
The Ministry of State Reform is s a Portuguese government ministry, firstly created in 1978 by the II Constitutional Government, having had several designations ever since.[1]
It is responsible for coordinating public administration reform policies with a view to modernising and reducing bureaucracy.
Currently, it is led by Gonçalo Saraiva Matias.[2]
Name
[edit]The ministry has been created with different names throughout history:
- Ministry of Administrative Reform – 30 January 1978 to 9 June 1983
- Ministry of State Reform and Public Administration– 25 October 1999 to 6 April 2002
- Ministry of Administrative Modernization – 30 October 2015 to 26 October 2019
- Ministry of State Modernization and Public Administration – 26 October 2019 to 30 March 2022
- Ministry of Modernization – 2 April 2024 to 5 June 2025
- Ministry of State Reform – 5 June 2025 to present
List of Ministers
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| # | Portrait | Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Prime Minister | ||
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| Rui Pena (1939–2018) |
30 January 1978 | 29 August 1978 | CDS | Mário Soares | ||||
| – | Vacant office | 29 August 1978 | 9 January 1981 | Alfredo Nobre da Costa | ||||
| Carlos Mota Pinto | ||||||||
| Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo | ||||||||
| Francisco Sá Carneiro | ||||||||
| Diogo Freitas do Amaral | ||||||||
| 2 | Eusébio Marques de Carvalho (b. 1945) |
9 January 1981 | 4 June 1981 | Ind. | Francisco Pinto Balsemão | |||
| Vacant office | 4 June 1981 | 4 September 1981 | ||||||
| 3 | José Menéres Pimentel (1928–2014) |
4 September 1981 | 9 June 1983 | PSD | ||||
| – | Vacant office | 9 June 1983 | 25 October 1999 | Mário Soares | ||||
| Aníbal Cavaco Silva | ||||||||
| António Guterres | ||||||||
| 4 | Alberto Martins (b. 1945) |
25 October 1999 | 6 April 2002 | PS | ||||
| – | Vacant office | 6 April 2002 | 30 October 2015 | José Durão Barroso | ||||
| Pedro Santana Lopes | ||||||||
| José Sócrates | ||||||||
| Pedro Passos Coelho | ||||||||
| 5 | Rui Medeiros (b. 1963) |
30 October 2015 | 26 November 2015 | Ind. | ||||
| 6 | _Horasis_Global_Meeting_-_Grand_Opening_(cropped).jpg)
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Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (b. 1952) |
26 November 2015 | 18 February 2019 | PS | António Costa | ||
| 7 | _(cropped).png)
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Mariana Vieira da Silva (b. 1978) |
18 February 2019 | 26 October 2019 | PS | |||
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Alexandra Leitão (b. 1973) |
26 October 2019 | 30 March 2022 | PS | |||
| – | Vacant office | 30 March 2022 | 2 April 2024 | |||||
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Margarida Balseiro Lopes (b. 1989) |
2 April 2024 | 5 June 2025 | PSD | Luís Montenegro | ||
| 10 | Gonçalo Saraiva Matias (b. 1979) |
5 June 2025 | present | PSD | ||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ There is no official ministry logo yet
References
[edit]- ^ SAPO. "Governo: Modernização administrativa passa a Reforma do Estado. Educação, ciência e inovação sem mudanças". SAPO Tek (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-16.
- ^ Alves, Filipe (2025-06-04). "Gonçalo Saraiva Matias vai ser o novo ministro da Reforma do Estado". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-16.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Portuguese)