Ana Catarina Mendes | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for Portugal | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Minister Adjunct and for Parliamentary Affairs | |
| In office 30 March 2022 – 2 April 2024 | |
| Prime Minister | António Costa |
| Preceded by | Tiago Antunes (Secretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister) Duarte Cordeiro (Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs) |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Castro Almeida (Minister Adjunct) Pedro Duarte (Parliamentary Affairs) |
| Deputy Secretary-General of the Socialist Party | |
| In office 9 December 2015 – 17 October 2019 | |
| Secretary-General | António Costa |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | José Luís Carneiro |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 27 October 1995 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Setúbal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ana Catarina Veiga Santos Mendonça Mendes 14 January 1973 Coimbra, Portugal |
| Political party | Socialist Party |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon University Institute of Lisbon |
Ana Catarina Veiga dos Santos Mendonça Mendes (born 14 January 1973) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 1995 and, from 2019, led the party in Parliament. In March 2022, she was appointed Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the XXIII Constitutional Government, a position she held until after the March 2024 national election.[1]
Ana Catarina Mendes was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2024 European election, and sworn-in in the Tenth European Parliament.[2]
- ^ "Ana Catarina Mendes, a dirigente do PS que chegou ao Governo". SIC Noticias. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ Jerónimo, Mariana (9 June 2024). "Quem são os 21 eurodeputados que Portugal vai enviar para o Parlamento Europeu?" [Who are the 21 MEPs that Portugal is sending to the European Parliament?]. SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 June 2024.