Teresa Morais

Teresa Morais
Vice President of the Assembly of the Republic
Assumed office
27 March 2024
PresidentJosé Pedro Aguiar-Branco
Minister of Culture, Equality and Citizenship
In office
30 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
Preceded byJorge Barreto Xavier
Succeeded byJoão Soares
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Assumed office
26 March 2024
ConstituencySetúbal
In office
15 October 2009 – 24 October 2019
ConstituencyLeiria
In office
4 April 2002 – 9 March 2005
ConstituencyCoimbra
Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Equality
In office
21 June 2011 – 30 October 2015
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
Preceded byElza Pais
Succeeded byPedro Lomba
Personal details
Born
Maria Teresa da Silva Morais

(1959-07-21) 21 July 1959 (age 65)
Lisbon, Portugal
Political partySocial Democratic Party (2002–present)
SpouseLuís Miguel Monteiro
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
OccupationLawyerPolitician

Maria Teresa da Silva Morais (born 21 July 1959)[1] is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Culture, Equality and Citizenship in 2015. From 2011 to 2015, Morais served as the Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Equality.[2] She is a member of the Social Democratic Party and was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2002 and again between the 2009 and 2019.[1] She was Vice-President of the PSD and a member of the Permanent Political Commission led by Pedro Passos Coelho.[3][4]

In March 2024, she was re-elected to the Assembly of the Republic as the first-choice candidate on the Democratic Alliance's Setúbal list for the 2024 legislative elections.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Teresa Morais Partido PSD". parlamento.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 7 March 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Teresa Morais". portugal.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  3. ^ Sapage, Sónia (2019-06-18). "Teresa Morais: "Não é o meu PSD"". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  4. ^ a b "Eleições Legislativas 2024. Deputados Eleitos". CNN. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Setúbal. Teresa Morais quer aumentar número de votos e de mandatos da AD". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-03-03.