Bruno Alexandre Rocha Gonçalves (born 27 December 1996) is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party (PS). He was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He has been serving as secretary-general of the International Union of Socialist Youth since 2021, and as vice president of the Socialist International since 2022.
Early life and career Gonçalves was born in Braga and graduated from the University of Minho with a master's degree in mechanical engineering. As of 2024, he had been a member of Socialist Youth for "about 10 years." He was previously leader of the Braga branch of Socialist Youth, and is a member of the Municipal Assembly.
In 2024, he ran for the leadership of the Socialist Youth, but lost against Sofia Pereira, gaining only 40.6% of the votes to his opponent's 58.2%.
Electoral history
2024 Socialist Youth leadership election
|- style="background-color:#0c68b0" ! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes ! align="center" style="width: 50px"|% |- |bgcolor=| | align=left | Sofia Pereira | align=right | 198 | align=right | 58.2 |- |bgcolor=| | align=left | Bruno Gonçalves | align=right | 138 | align=right | 40.6 |- | colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots | align=right | 4 | align=right | 1.2 |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout | align=right | 340
| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Observador
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