Government of PortugalAssembly of the Republic: MPs and attendance · VIII Legislature
- PCP: 15
- PEV: 2
- BE: 2
- PS: 115
- PSD: 81
- CDS-PP: 14
- Indep: 1
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Who represents me?
The MPs for each of the 22 constituencies
Who was absent at the last plenary sitting?
20 December 2001: 7 justified absences, 1 unjustified, none not yet classified
222of 230 MPs present in the chamber
· 1
· 0
· 7
- Vítor Peixoto PS
- Artur Torres Pereira PSD
- Carlos Encarnação PSD
- António Pires de Lima CDS-PP
- Luís Nobre Guedes CDS-PP
- Narana Coissoró CDS-PP
- Paulo Portas CDS-PP
At the of 20 December 2001, 222 of the 230 MPs were present in the chamber. Absences: 7 and 1 . (source)
How many MPs were absent, by party?
7 groups, all on the same scale
Across the 224 of read so far, the Assembly made 51,517 records (one per MP per sitting). Absences: 4,916 and 173 . (source)
- Present
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See the counts by group
| Group | MPs | Seat-sittings | Present | Other work | Mission | Justified | Unjustified | Not classified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCP | 20 | 3360 | 2987 | 0 | 0 | 373 | 0 | 0 |
| PEV | 4 | 448 | 405 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 |
| BE | 4 | 448 | 399 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 0 |
| PS | 187 | 25758 | 23625 | 0 | 0 | 1995 | 138 | 0 |
| PSD | 106 | 18145 | 16034 | 0 | 0 | 2096 | 15 | 0 |
| CDS-PP | 27 | 3313 | 2936 | 0 | 0 | 362 | 15 | 0 |
| Indep | 2 | 45 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Debates with the prime minister
none read yet
Every two weeks, the prime minister comes to the to answer MPs’ questions. The two formats alternate: in one, the prime minister opens with a statement on general policy; in the other, there are only questions. Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224-A
No debate read for this legislature yet. The Diário is read a little at a time (10 issues a day).
Who are the MPs of each party?
349 names in 7 groups
Partido Comunista Português (PCP · 20)
Partido Ecologista «Os Verdes» (PEV · 4)
Bloco de Esquerda (BE · 4)
Partido Socialista (PS · 187)
- Acácio Barreiros
- Afonso Candal
- Afonso Lobão
- Agostinho Gonçalves
- Aires de Carvalho
- Alberto Antunes
- Alberto Arons de Carvalho
- Alberto Costa
- Alberto Martins
- Alexandre Chaves
- Américo Pereira
- Ana Benavente
- Ana Catarina Mendonça
- Antero Gaspar
- António Braga
- António Calvete
- António Costa
- António de Almeida Santos
- António Galamba
- António Martinho
- António Reis
- António Saleiro
- Armando Vara
- Artur Penedos
- Barbosa de Oliveira
- Barbosa Ribeiro
- Bruno Almeida
- Caio Roque
- Capoulas Santos
- Carla Tavares
- Carlos Alberto
- Carlos Alberto Santos
- Carlos André
- Carlos Cunha
- Carlos Lavrador
- Carlos Luís
- Carlos Matos
- Carlos Zorrinho
- Casimiro Ramos
- Celeste Correia
- Claudio Monteiro
- Custódia Fernandes
- Dias Baptista
- Dinis Costa
- Edite Estrela
- Eduarda Castro
- Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues
- Eduardo Pereira
- Elisa Guimarães Ferreira
- Emanuel Martins
- Fausto Correia
- Fernanda Costa
- Fernando Gomes
- Fernando Jesus
- Fernando Moniz
- Fernando Pereira Marques
- Fernando Serrasqueiro
- Fialho Anastácio
- Filipe Vital
- Francisco Camilo
- Francisco de Assis
- Francisco Torres
- Francisco Valente
- Gavino Paixão
- Gil França
- Gonçalo Almeida Velho
- Guilherme D'oliveira Martins
- Helena Ribeiro
- Helena Roseta
- Isabel Barata
- Isabel Jorge
- Isabel Pires de Lima
- Isabel Sena Lino
- Isabel Vigia
- Isabel Zacarias
- Jaime Gama
- Jamila Madeira
- João Benavente
- João Carlos da Silva
- João Cravinho
- João Galinha Barreto
- João Lourenço
- João Pedro Correia
- João Rui de Almeida
- João Sequeira
- João Soares
- João Sobral
- Joaquim Pina Moura
- Joaquim Raposo
- Joaquim Sarmento
- Joel Hasse Ferreira
- Jorge Coelho
- Jorge Lacão
- Jorge Strecht
- José Alberto Fateixa
- José António Cardoso
- José Apolinário
- José Augusto Carvalho
- José Barros Moura
- José Carlos Tavares
- José Egípto
- José Junqueiro
- José Lamego
- José Leitão
- José Lello
- José Lemos
- José Magalhães
- José Manuel Epifânio
- José Miguel Boquinhas
- José Miguel Medeiros
- José Miguel Noras
- José Mota
- José Narciso de Miranda
- José Penedos
- José Reis
- José Saraiva
- José Vera Jardim
- Jovita Ladeira
- Laurentino Dias
- Leonor Coutinho
- Luís Carito
- Luís Miguel Teixeira
- Luís Parreirão
- Luís Patrão
- Luís Pedro Martins
- Luísa Portugal
- Luísa Vasconcelos
- Luiz Fagundes Duarte
- Mafalda Troncho
- Manuel Alegre
- Manuel Diogo
- Manuel dos Santos
- Manuel Maria Carrilho
- Manuela Arcanjo
- Margarida Rocha Gariso
- Maria Amélia Antunes
- Maria Antónia Almeida Santos
- Maria da Luz Rosinha
- Maria de Belém Roseira
- Maria do Carmo Borges
- Maria do Carmo Romão
- Maria do Carmo Sequeira
- Maria do Céu Lourenço
- Maria do Rosário Carneiro
- Maria José Campos
- Maria Santos
- Maria Teresa Coimbra
- Marques Júnior
- Mata de Cáceres
- Matos Leitão
- Medeiros Ferreira
- Menezes Rodrigues
- Mesquita Machado
- Miguel Coelho
- Miguel Ginestal
- Miranda Calha
- Mota Andrade
- Mota Torres
- Natalina Tavares de Moura
- Nelson Baltazar
- Nuno Baltazar Mendes
- Nuno Ferreira da Silva
- Ofélia Guerreiro
- Osvaldo de Castro
- Paula Duarte
- Paulo Fonseca
- Paulo Pedroso
- Paulo Pisco
- Renato Sampaio
- Ricardo Castanheira
- Ricardo Gonçalves
- Rosa Maria Albernaz
- Rosalina Martins
- Rui Cunha
- Rui Marqueiro
- Rui Solheiro
- Rui Vieira
- Santinho Pacheco
- Sónia Fertuzinhos
- Teresa Venda
- Victor Baptista
- Victor Moura
- Vitalino Canas
- Vítor Carola
- Vítor Peixoto
- Vítor Ramalho
- Zelinda Marouço Semedo
Partido Social Democrata (PSD · 106)
- Adão Silva
- Alberto João Jardim
- Álvaro Amaro
- Álvaro Barreto
- Ana Manso
- Ana Maria Narciso
- António Abelha
- António Capucho
- António Montalvão Machado
- António Nazaré Pereira
- Armando Vieira
- Arménio Santos
- Artur Torres Pereira
- Bruno Vitorino
- Carlos Antunes
- Carlos Encarnação
- Carlos Marta
- Carlos Martins
- Carvalho Martins
- Castro de Almeida
- Correia de Jesus
- Cruz Silva
- David Justino
- David Santos
- Duarte Lima
- Duarte Pacheco
- Durão Barroso
- Eduardo Azevedo Soares
- Emília Silva
- Eugénio Marinho
- Feliciano Barreiras Duarte
- Fernando Costa
- Fernando Penha
- Fernando Ruas
- Fernando Santos Pereira
- Fernando Seara
- Ferreira do Amaral
- Francisco Amaral
- Francisco Rodrigues Araújo
- Francisco Tavares
- Guilherme Silva
- Henrique Chaves
- Henrique Rocha de Freitas
- Hermínio Loureiro
- Hugo Velosa
- Isaltino Morais
- Jaime Soares
- João Loureiro
- João Maçãs
- João Moura de Sá
- Joaquim Mota e Silva
- Joaquim Ponte
- Jorge Neto
- José António Silva
- José Cesário
- José de Matos Correia
- José Eduardo Martins
- José Granja da Fonseca
- José Luís Arnaut
- José Luís Oliveira
- José Macedo Abrantes
- José Macedo Vieira
- José Manuel Fernandes
- José Ministro dos Santos
- José Salter Cid
- Lucília Ferra
- Luís Cirilo
- Luís Marques Guedes
- Luís Marques Mendes
- Luís Pedro Pimentel
- Machado Rodrigues
- Manuel Frexes
- Manuel Moreira
- Manuel Nascimento Martins
- Manuel Oliveira
- Manuela Ferreira Leite
- Maria do Céu Ramos
- Maria Eduarda Azevedo
- Maria Isabel Soares
- Maria Manuela Aguiar
- Maria Ofélia Moleiro
- Mário Albuquerque
- Melchior Moreira
- Miguel Macedo
- Miguel Miranda
- Miguel Miranda Relvas
- Mota Amaral
- Natália Carrascalão
- Nuno Freitas
- Nuno Sancho Ramos
- Patinha Antão
- Paulo Pereira Coelho
- Pedro da Vinha Costa
- Pedro Duarte
- Pedro Pinto
- Pedro Roseta
- Pedro Santana Lopes
- Ricardo Fonseca de Almeida
- Rui Gomes da Silva
- Rui Rio
- Sérgio Vieira
- Telmo Antunes
- Teresa Patrício Gouveia
- Vieira de Carvalho
- Vieira de Castro
- Virgílio Almeida Costa
CDS – Partido Popular (CDS-PP · 26)
- Acílio Gala
- Altino Bessa
- Álvaro Castello-branco
- Alves Pereira
- António Pinho
- António Pires de Lima
- Basílio Horta
- Fernando Alves Moreno
- Henrique Campos Cunha
- Herculano Gonçalves
- João Rebelo
- José Pires da Silva
- José Ribeiro e Castro
- Luís Nobre Guedes
- Manuel Queiró
- Maria Celeste Cardona
- Miguel Anacoreta Correia
- Miguel Capão Filipe
- Narana Coissoró
- Nuno Teixeira de Melo
- Paulo Portas
- Pedro Mota Soares
- Raúl de Almeida
- Rosado Fernandes
- Sílvio Rui Cervan
- Telmo Correia
Independentes (Indep · 2)
Glossary
15 terms explained, with the official rule
- Chamber
- The half-moon room where MPs meet. The Assembly of the Republic has 230 seats. Here each dot is an MP, and the groups run from left to right in the order of the political spectrum. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 13.º; Constitution, art. 148.º
- Legislature
- The term of an elected Parliament: four legislative sessions (about four years), or less when the Assembly is dissolved and there is an early election. Each has a Roman numeral; the current one is the XVII. Source: Constitution, art. 171.º
- Legislative session
- One year of parliamentary work. It starts on 15 September. Source: Constitution, art. 174.º
- Constituency
- The area the MP was elected for. There are 22: the 18 mainland districts, the Azores, Madeira and two for Portuguese voters abroad (Europe and Outside Europe). Every MP represents the whole country, not only their constituency. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 12.º; Constitution, art. 152.º, n.º 2
- Parliamentary group
- The MPs elected for the same party or coalition, who work together in Parliament. Source: Constitution, art. 180.º; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 6.º
- Plenary sitting
- The meeting of all MPs in the chamber, where laws are debated and voted on. The Assembly publishes who attended and who was absent at each one, with the justification when there is one. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º
- Present at other parliamentary work
- The MP was not in the chamber because they were doing other Assembly work, for example in a committee or a group meeting. It does not count as an absence. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 53.º
- Parliamentary mission
- The MP was representing the Assembly elsewhere, for example in a delegation abroad. The Assembly records it separately, as an absence on mission, not as a missed sitting. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º, n.º 3
- Justified absence
- The MP was absent for a reason the law accepts: illness, marriage, maternity or paternity, bereavement, force majeure, parliamentary mission or work, or political or party work. The President of the Assembly decides whether the justification is accepted. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 8.º, n.º 2; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 18.º, n.º 1, al. a)
- Unjustified absence
- The MP was absent without an accepted reason. Each one is deducted from the salary (1/20 for the first three, 1/10 after that), and missing four plenary sittings in a legislative session without a justified reason leads to the loss of the seat. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 23.º, n.º 1; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 3.º, n.º 1, al. b)
- Not yet classified
- The Assembly recorded the absence with a code that does not say whether it is justified, for example «QV» (absent at the voting quorum) while the justification is pending. Veramundi does not count it as an unjustified absence. Source: Statute of MPs, art. 24.º; Veramundi, how we read the Assembly data
- Absent at the voting quorum
- When there are not enough MPs in the chamber to vote, the President of the Assembly calls them in and records who is missing. The Assembly marks it «QV» and, once justified, «QVJ». Source: Statute of MPs, art. 24.º
- Assembly code
- The abbreviation the Assembly puts on each record. PR: present. PNO: present at another body. ME and MP: parliamentary mission. FJ, QVJ and FAJ: justified absence. FI: unjustified absence. QV and FA: not yet classified. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º; Veramundi, how we read the Assembly data
- Debate with the prime minister
- Every two weeks the prime minister comes to the plenary to answer MPs’ questions. The formats alternate: with an opening statement by the prime minister (point a, «general policy») or questions only (point b). Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224.º-A
- Replacement
- When an MP leaves or suspends their seat (for example, to join the Government), the seat goes to the next candidate on the same list. That is why a legislature has more names than its 230 seats. Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 18.º; Statute of MPs, art. 4.º
How to read this
The rules and the source of the figures
- The figures are those the Assembly of the Republic publishes as open data, with no corrections of ours.
- Justified and unjustified absences are always shown apart. A code the Assembly has not classified yet (for example «», awaiting a decision) stays «», never an unjustified absence.
- «» and «» are absences from the plenary on Assembly business, as the Assembly records them.
- The Assembly does not publish committee attendance: MP pages show committee membership only.
- There are no lists of who misses the most or the least, and no adjectives.
Source
Assembly of the Republic, open data (free reuse with attribution). Last read: 8 November 2026. parlamento.pt
First time here? Parliament in 5 steps
- What the Assembly of the Republic is. It is Portugal’s Parliament. It makes laws, approves the State Budget and scrutinises what the Government does. It represents all Portuguese citizens. Source: Constitution, art. 147.º; Constitution, art. 161.º; Constitution, art. 162.º
- Who sits there. There are 230 MPs, elected on party lists in 22 . Each election opens a new , of four years at most. When an MP leaves, the next person on the same list takes the seat (). Source: Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 13.º; Electoral Law of the Assembly, art. 12.º; Constitution, art. 171.º
- How they are organised. The MPs elected for the same party form a . In the on this page, each colour is a group, from left to right. Source: Constitution, art. 180.º
- Where they work. All together at the , where laws are debated and voted on, and in committees, smaller groups that study each subject before it goes to a vote. Every two weeks the prime minister comes to the plenary to answer MPs (). Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 35.º; Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 224.º-A
- How to read attendance. At each plenary sitting the Assembly records every MP: present in the chamber, on Assembly business elsewhere ( or , which are not absences), , or a code . Veramundi shows these records as the Assembly publishes them, without ranking who is absent more or less. Source: Rules of Procedure of the Assembly, art. 56.º; Statute of MPs, art. 8.º
Chamber
The half-moon room where MPs meet. The Assembly of the Republic has 230 seats. Here each dot is an MP, and the groups run from left to right in the order of the political spectrum.
Legislature
The term of an elected Parliament: four legislative sessions (about four years), or less when the Assembly is dissolved and there is an early election. Each has a Roman numeral; the current one is the XVII.
Legislative session
One year of parliamentary work. It starts on 15 September.
Constituency
The area the MP was elected for. There are 22: the 18 mainland districts, the Azores, Madeira and two for Portuguese voters abroad (Europe and Outside Europe). Every MP represents the whole country, not only their constituency.
Parliamentary group
The MPs elected for the same party or coalition, who work together in Parliament.
Plenary sitting
The meeting of all MPs in the chamber, where laws are debated and voted on. The Assembly publishes who attended and who was absent at each one, with the justification when there is one.
Present at other parliamentary work
The MP was not in the chamber because they were doing other Assembly work, for example in a committee or a group meeting. It does not count as an absence.
Parliamentary mission
The MP was representing the Assembly elsewhere, for example in a delegation abroad. The Assembly records it separately, as an absence on mission, not as a missed sitting.
Justified absence
The MP was absent for a reason the law accepts: illness, marriage, maternity or paternity, bereavement, force majeure, parliamentary mission or work, or political or party work. The President of the Assembly decides whether the justification is accepted.
Unjustified absence
The MP was absent without an accepted reason. Each one is deducted from the salary (1/20 for the first three, 1/10 after that), and missing four plenary sittings in a legislative session without a justified reason leads to the loss of the seat.
Not yet classified
The Assembly recorded the absence with a code that does not say whether it is justified, for example «QV» (absent at the voting quorum) while the justification is pending. Veramundi does not count it as an unjustified absence.
Absent at the voting quorum
When there are not enough MPs in the chamber to vote, the President of the Assembly calls them in and records who is missing. The Assembly marks it «QV» and, once justified, «QVJ».
Assembly code
The abbreviation the Assembly puts on each record. PR: present. PNO: present at another body. ME and MP: parliamentary mission. FJ, QVJ and FAJ: justified absence. FI: unjustified absence. QV and FA: not yet classified.
Debate with the prime minister
Every two weeks the prime minister comes to the plenary to answer MPs’ questions. The formats alternate: with an opening statement by the prime minister (point a, «general policy») or questions only (point b).
Replacement
When an MP leaves or suspends their seat (for example, to join the Government), the seat goes to the next candidate on the same list. That is why a legislature has more names than its 230 seats.