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.
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.
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 #PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePartyPrime MinisterRui Pena(1939–2018)30 January 197829 August 1978CDSMário Soares–Vacant officeAs Secretary of State:- Carlos Robalo (1980–1981)29 August 19789 January 1981Alfredo Nobre da CostaCarlos Mota PintoMaria de Lourdes PintasilgoFrancisco Sá CarneiroDiogo Freitas do Amaral2Eusébio Marques de Carvalho(b. 1945)9 January 19814 June 1981Ind.Francisco Pinto BalsemãoVacant officeAs Secretary of State:- José Robin de Andrade (1981)4 June 19814 September 19813José Menéres Pimentel(1928–2014)4 September 19819 June 1983PSD–Vacant officeAs Secretary of State:- Isabel Corte Real (1987–1995)9 June 198325 October 1999Mário SoaresAníbal Cavaco SilvaAntónio Guterres4Alberto Martins(b. 1945)25 October 19996 April 2002PS–Vacant officeAs Secretary of State:- Maria Manuel Leitão Marques (2005–2011)- Joaquim Cardoso da Costa (2013–2015)6 April 200230 October 2015José Durão BarrosoPedro Santana LopesJosé SócratesPedro Passos Coelho5Rui Medeiros(b. 1963)30 October 201526 November 2015Ind.6Maria Manuel Leitão Marques(b. 1952)26 November 201518 February 2019PSAntónio Costa7Mariana Vieira da Silva(b. 1978)18 February 201926 October 2019PS8Alexandra Leitão(b. 1973)26 October 201930 March 2022PS–Vacant officeAs Secretary of State:- Mário Campolargo (2022–2024)30 March 20222 April 20249Margarida Balseiro Lopes(b. 1989)2 April 20245 June 2025PSDLuís Montenegro10Gonçalo Saraiva Matias(b. 1979)5 June 2025presentPSD
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