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{{short description|Portuguese politician}}
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| name                = Maria Manuel Leitão Marques
| image               = (Maria Manuel Leitão Marques) Horasis Global Meeting - Grand Opening (cropped).jpg
| office              = [[Member of the European Parliament]]
| term_start          = 2 July 2019
| term_end            = 15 July 2024
| constituency        = [[Portugal (European Parliament constituency)|Portugal]]
| office1             = [[Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Portugal)|Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation]]
| primeminister1      = [[António Costa]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/antonio-costa-indigitado-a-lista-dos-novos-ministros-de-portugal_n876431|title=António Costa indigitado: a lista dos novos ministros de Portugal|publisher=[[Radio and Television of Portugal]]|date=24 November 2015|first=Christopher|last=Marques|language=pt|access-date=13 September 2018}}</ref>
| vicepresident1      =
| term_start1         = 26 November 2015
| term_end1           = 18 February 2019
| predecessor1        =
| successor1          =
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1952|8|23|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Quelimane]], [[Portuguese Mozambique]]<ref name=govprofile/>
| death_date          =
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| party               = [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]]
| alma_mater          =
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'''Maria Manuel Leitão Marques''' (born 23 August 1952) is a Portuguese politician of the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revistafrontline.com/grande-entrevista/maria-manuel-leitao-marques/|title=MARIA MANUEL LEITÃO MARQUES|date=6 November 2017|work=revistafrontline.com|access-date=8 September 2018|language=pt}}</ref> who has been serving as a [[Member of the European Parliament]] since 2019. She previously served as [[Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Portugal)|Minister of the Presidency and of Administrative Modernisation]] in the cabinet of [[Prime Minister of Portugal|Prime Minister]] [[António Costa]] {{as of|2015|11|26|since=y|lc=y}}.<ref name=govprofile/>
==Career in national politics==
From 2015 until 2019, Leitão Marques represented the [[Viseu (Assembly of the Republic constituency)|Viseu constituency]] in the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]]. Marques was the Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernization under the [[XVII Constitutional Government of Portugal|XVIII]] and [[XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal]].<ref name=govprofile>{{cite web|url=https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc21/ministries/presidency-and-of-administrative-modernisation|title=Maria Manuel Leitão Marques|work=portugal.gov.pt|access-date=8 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180906124719/https://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/gc21/ministries/presidency-and-of-administrative-modernisation|archive-date=6 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present==
In the [[2019 European Parliament election|2019 European elections]], Leitão Marques ran on the list of Prime Minister António Costa's Socialist Party.<ref>Maïa de La Baume and Lili Bayer (May 15, 2019), [https://www.politico.eu/article/the-14-women-who-could-take-over-the-eu-top-jobs/ The 14 women who could take over the EU] ''[[Politico Europe]]''.</ref> She has since been serving as vice chair of the [[Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection]]. In this capacity, she is the parliament’s [[rapporteur]] on the European Commission’s 2022 proposal for a ban on the import and export of products made using forced labour.<ref>Silvia Ellena (12 April 2023), [https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/progress-on-forced-labour-products-ban-too-slow-says-leading-rapporteur/ Progress on forced labour products ban too slow, says leading rapporteur] ''[[Euractiv]]''.</ref>
In addition to her committee assignments, Leitão Marques is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital.<ref>[https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/files/organisation-and-rules/organisation/intergroups/list-of-members-artificial-intelligence-and-digital.pdf Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital] [[European Parliament]].</ref>
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[[Category:Government ministers of Portugal]]
[[Category:Women government ministers of Portugal]]
[[Category:Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians]]
[[Category:MEPs for Portugal 2019–2024]]
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