Luís Montenegro

Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves (born 16 February 1973)^[1] is a Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician who has been the Prime Minister of Portugal since 2024. He was the Leader of the Opposition from 2022 to 2024. He was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from the Aveiro District from 2002 to 2018.

Luís Montenegro
Montenegro in 2024
Prime Minister of Portugal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 April 2024
President	Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
Preceded by	António Costa
President of the Social Democratic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 July 2022
Secretary-General	Hugo Soares
Preceded by	Rui Rio
Leader of the Opposition
In office 3 July 2022 – 2 April 2024
Prime Minister	António Costa
Preceded by	Rui Rio
Succeeded by	Pedro Nuno Santos
President of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party
In office 20 June 2011 – 6 June 2017
Preceded by	Miguel Macedo
Succeeded by	Hugo Soares
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 26 March 2024 – 2 April 2024
Constituency	Lisbon
In office 4 April 2002 – 5 April 2018
Constituency	Aveiro
Personal details
Born	Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves (1973-02-16) 16 February 1973 (age 52) Porto, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party (1991–present)
Spouse(s)	Carla Montenegro ​ ​ (m. 2000)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Catholic University of Portugal
Occupation	Lawyer politician

He lost to Rui Rio in his party's leadership election in 2020. He ran again for the party leadership after Rio's resignation in 2022, winning the position.

Montenegro was sworn-in as Prime Minister of Portugal on 2 April 2024 at a ceremony in the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon.^[2][3] Before taking office, Montenegro promised to govern with a minority government instead of forming a coalition with the right-wing populist party Chega.^[4]