Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (Portugal)

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (Portuguese: Ministério da Cultura, Juventude e Desporto) is a Portuguese government ministry, created in June 2025 by the XXV Constitutional Government as a merger of the previous Ministries of Culture and Youth and Modernisation. Currently, it is led by Margarida Balseiro Lopes.^[2]

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports

Ministério da Cultura, Juventude e Desporto
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Portugal
Headquarters	Campus XXI, Lisbon
Annual budget	€245.5 million[1]
Minister responsible	Margarida Balseiro Lopes, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports
Child Ministry	Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
Website	Official Site

It is dedicated to the design, development, execution and assessment of the cultural national policy, as well as managing policies related to youth and sports.

As all other ministers, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports is part of the Council of Ministers.^[3]

List of ministers

No.	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1	Eduardo Silva Correia	16 May 1974	17 July 1974	62 days	Adelino da Palma Carlos	Independent
2	Vitorino Magalhães Godinho	17 July 1974	29 November 1974	135 days	Vasco Gonçalves
3	Vasco Gonçalves	29 November 1974	4 December 1974	5 days
4	Manuel Rodrigues de Carvalho	4 December 1974	26 March 1975	112 days
5	José Emílio da Silva	26 March 1975	19 September 1975	177 days
Note: During the José Pinheiro de Azevedo and the first Mário Soares government, this Ministry was extinguished and its powers transferred to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. In the second government it is brought back as the Ministry of Education and Culture.
6	Mário Sottomayor Cardia	30 January 1978	29 August 1978	211 days	Mário Soares	Socialist Party
7	Carlos Lloyd Braga	29 August 1978	22 November 1978	85 days	Alfredo Nobre da Costa	Independent
Note: During the Carlos Mota Pinto government, this Ministry was extinguished and its powers transferred to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
8	Adérito Sedas Nunes	1 August 1979	3 January 1980	155 days	Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	Independent
Note: During the Francisco Sá Carneiro government and the first Francisco Pinto Balsemão government, this Ministry was extinguished and its powers transferred to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
9	Francisco Lucas Pires	4 September 1981	9 June 1983	1 year, 278 days	Francisco Pinto Balsemão	Democratic and Social Center
10	António Coimbra Martins	9 June 1983	6 November 1985	2 years, 150 days	Mário Soares	Socialist Party
11	João de Deus Pinheiro	6 November 1985	17 August 1987	1 year, 284 days	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	Social Democratic Party
Note: During the last two Aníbal Cavaco Silva governments, this Ministry was extinguished and its powers transferred to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
12	Manuel Maria Carrilho	28 October 1995	12 July 2000	4 years, 259 days	António Guterres	Socialist Party
13	José Sasportes	12 July 2000	3 July 2001	355 days
14	Augusto Santos Silva	3 July 2001	6 April 2002	277 days
15	Pedro Roseta	6 April 2002	17 July 2004	2 years, 102 days	José Manuel Barroso	Social Democratic Party
16	Maria João Bustorff	17 July 2004	12 March 2005	238 days	Pedro Santana Lopes
17	Isabel Pires de Lima	12 March 2005	30 January 2008	2 years, 325 days	José Sócrates	Independent
18	José António Pinto Ribeiro	30 January 2008	26 October 2009	1 year, 268 days		Socialist Party
19	Gabriela Canavilhas	26 October 2009	21 June 2011	1 year, 206 days
Note: During the first Pedro Passos Coelho government, this ministry was extinguished and its powers transferred to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. In the second government, it is brought back as the Ministry of Culture, Equality and Citizenship.
20	Teresa Morais	30 October 2015	26 November 2015	27 days	Pedro Passos Coelho	Social Democratic Party
21	João Soares	26 November 2015	14 April 2016	140 days	António Costa	Socialist Party
22	Luís Filipe Castro Mendes	14 April 2016	15 October 2018	2 years, 184 days
23	Graça Fonseca	15 October 2018	30 March 2022	3 years, 166 days
24	Pedro Adão e Silva	30 March 2022	2 April 2024	2 years, 3 days
25	Dalila Rodrigues	2 April 2024	5 June 2025	1 year, 64 days	Luís Montenegro	Independent
26	Margarida Balseiro Lopes	5 June 2025	Incumbent	73 days	Luís Montenegro	Social Democratic Party