Miguel Portas

Miguel Portas
Miguel Portas in 2009
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 July 2004 – 24 April 2012
ConstituencyPortugal
Personal details
Born
Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas

1 May 1958
Lisbon, Portugal
Died24 April 2012(2012-04-24) (aged 53)
Antwerp, Belgium
Political partyLeft Bloc (1999–2012)
Other political
affiliations
Portuguese Communist Party (1973–1989)
Platform of the Left (1992–1994)
Politics XXI (1994–1999)
Children3
RelativesPaulo Portas (brother)
Catarina Portas (half-sister)
Sacadura Cabral (great-uncle)
Alma materTechnical University of Lisbon

Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.

Miguel Portas was the older brother of the former Foreign Affairs Minister and former leader of the right-wing CDS–PP, Paulo Portas, and a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral.