Ministry of State Reform

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]

Ministry of State Reform

Ministério da Reforma do Estado
Logo of the Portuguese Government[a]
Ministry overview
Formed	1978 (1978)
Jurisdiction	Government of Portugal
Headquarters	Lisbon
Minister responsible	Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, Minister of State Reform
Website	portugal.gov.pt

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

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

Colour key (for political parties)
Socialist Party (PS)   Social Democratic Party (PSD)   Democratic and Social Center (CDS)   Independent (Ind.)

#	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Party		Prime Minister
		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		Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (b. 1952)	26 November 2015	18 February 2019		PS		António Costa
7		Mariana Vieira da Silva (b. 1978)	18 February 2019	26 October 2019		PS
8		Alexandra Leitão (b. 1973)	26 October 2019	30 March 2022		PS
–	Vacant office		30 March 2022	2 April 2024
9		Margarida Balseiro Lopes (b. 1989)	2 April 2024	5 June 2025		PSD		Luís Montenegro
10		Gonçalo Saraiva Matias (b. 1979)	5 June 2025	present		Ind.

Notes

1. There is no official ministry logo yet