Government of PortugalAssembly of the Republic: MPs and attendance · XI Legislature
- PCP: 13
- PEV: 2
- BE: 16
- PS: 97
- PSD: 81
- CDS-PP: 21
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Who represents me?
The MPs for each of the 22 constituencies
Who was absent at the last plenary sitting?
6 April 2011: 4 justified absences, no unjustified, none not yet classified
224of 230 MPs present in the chamber
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· 4
- Jerónimo de Sousa PCP · reason: Trabalho Político
- João Soares PS · reason: Doença
- José Luís Arnaut PSD · reason: Trabalho Político
- Sérgio Vieira PSD · reason: Força Maior
Outside the chamber on Assembly business (not an absence) · 2
At the of 6 April 2011, 224 of the 230 MPs were present in the chamber. Away from the chamber on Assembly business (not an absence): 2 . Absences: 4 and none . (source)
How many MPs were absent, by party?
6 groups, all on the same scale
Across the 155 of read so far, the Assembly made 35,650 records (one per MP per sitting). Absences: 1,304 and 22 . (source)
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See the counts by group
| Group | MPs | Seat-sittings | Present | Other work | Mission | Justified | Unjustified | Not classified |
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| PCP | 14 | 2015 | 1952 | 0 | 13 | 49 | 1 | 0 |
| PEV | 2 | 310 | 307 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| BE | 17 | 2480 | 2445 | 0 | 2 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| PS | 111 | 15035 | 14250 | 0 | 342 | 433 | 10 | 0 |
| PSD | 83 | 12555 | 11641 | 0 | 250 | 660 | 4 | 0 |
| CDS-PP | 23 | 3255 | 3067 | 0 | 54 | 127 | 7 | 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?
250 names in 6 groups
Partido Ecologista «Os Verdes» (PEV · 2)
Partido Socialista (PS · 111)
- Acácio Pinto
- Afonso Candal
- Alberto Costa
- Alberto Martins
- Amílcar Romano
- Ana Catarina Mendonça Mendes
- Ana Couto
- Ana Paula Vitorino
- Anabela Freitas
- António Galamba
- António Gameiro
- António José Seguro
- Bravo Nico
- Catarina Marcelino
- Celeste Correia
- Conceição Casa Nova
- Custódia Fernandes
- Defensor Moura
- Duarte Cordeiro
- Eduardo Cabrita
- Elza Pais
- Eurídice Pereira
- Fernando Jesus
- Fernando Moniz
- Filipe Neto Brandão
- Francisco de Assis
- Frederico Castro
- Glória Araújo
- Horácio Antunes
- Hortense Martins
- Hugo Pires
- Inês de Medeiros
- Isabel Coutinho
- Isabel Oneto
- Isilda Gomes
- Jaime Gama
- Jamila Madeira
- João Galamba
- João Paulo Correia
- João Paulo Pedrosa
- João Portugal
- João Sequeira
- João Serrano
- João Soares
- Jorge Fão
- Jorge Manuel Gonçalves
- Jorge Seguro Sanches
- Jorge Strecht
- José de Bianchi
- José Junqueiro
- José Lello
- José Miguel Medeiros
- José Pereira Marques
- José Ribeiro
- José Rui Cruz
- José Vera Jardim
- Lúcio Ferreira
- Luís Gonelha
- Luís Miguel França
- Luís Pita Ameixa
- Luísa Salgueiro
- Luiz Fagundes Duarte
- Manuel Mota
- Manuel Seabra
- Manuela de Melo
- Marcos Sá
- Maria Antónia de Almeida Santos
- Maria Conceição Loureiro
- Maria de Belém Roseira
- Maria de Lurdes Ruivo
- Maria do Rosário Carneiro
- Maria Helena Rebelo
- Maria José Gamboa
- Maria Luísa Santos
- Maria Manuela Augusto
- Mário Mourão
- Marisa Macedo
- Marques Júnior
- Miguel Coelho
- Miguel Freitas
- Miguel Laranjeiro
- Miguel Vale Almeida
- Miranda Calha
- Mota Andrade
- Nuno Araújo
- Nuno Sá
- Odete Alves
- Odete João
- Osvaldo de Castro
- Paula Barros
- Paulo Barradas
- Paulo Pisco
- Pedro Farmhouse
- Ramos Preto
- Renato Sampaio
- Ricardo Gonçalves
- Ricardo Rodrigues
- Rita Miguel
- Rosa Maria Albernaz
- Rosalina Martins
- Rui Pereira
- Rui Prudêncio
- Sérgio Paiva
- Sérgio Sousa Pinto
- Sofia Cabral
- Sónia Fertuzinhos
- Teresa Damásio
- Teresa Venda
- Vitalino Canas
- Vítor Baptista
- Vítor Fontes
Partido Social Democrata (PSD · 83)
- Adão Silva
- Adriano Rafael Moreira
- Agostinho Branquinho
- Amadeu Soares Albergaria
- Antonieta Guerreiro
- António Almeida Henriques
- António Cabeleira
- António Leitão Amaro
- António Montalvão Machado
- António Silva Preto
- Arménio Santos
- Carina Oliveira
- Carla Barros
- Carla Rodrigues
- Carlos Alberto Gonçalves
- Carlos Costa Neves
- Carlos Páscoa Gonçalves
- Carlos Peixoto
- Carlos São Martinho
- Celeste Amaro
- Clara Carneiro
- Correia de Jesus
- Couto dos Santos
- Cristóvão Crespo
- Duarte Pacheco
- Emídio Guerreiro
- Fernando Marques
- Fernando Negrão
- Francisca Almeida
- Guilherme Silva
- Helena Lopes da Costa
- Hugo Velosa
- Isabel Sequeira
- João Figueiredo
- João Prata
- Joaquim Ponte
- Jorge Bacelar Gouveia
- Jorge Costa
- José Cesário
- José de Matos Correia
- José de Matos Rosa
- José Eduardo Martins
- José Ferreira Gomes
- José Luís Arnaut
- José Pedro Aguiar Branco
- Luís Campos Ferreira
- Luís Capoulas
- Luís Marques Guedes
- Luís Menezes
- Luís Montenegro
- Luís Pedro Pimentel
- Luís Rodrigues
- Luís Vales
- Luísa Roseira
- Manuela Ferreira Leite
- Margarida Almeida
- Maria Conceição Pereira
- Maria das Mercês Borges
- Maria José Nogueira Pinto
- Maria Paula Cardoso
- Mendes Bota
- Miguel Frasquilho
- Miguel Macedo
- Mota Amaral
- Nuno Encarnação
- Nuno Reis
- Pacheco Pereira
- Paulo Batista Santos
- Paulo Cavaleiro
- Paulo Mota Pinto
- Pedro Duarte
- Pedro Lynce
- Pedro Rodrigues
- Pedro Saraiva
- Raquel Coelho
- Rosário Águas
- Sérgio Vieira
- Teresa Fernandes
- Teresa Morais
- Teresa Santos
- Ulisses Pereira
- Vânia Jesus
- Vasco Cunha
CDS – Partido Popular (CDS-PP · 23)
- Abel Baptista
- Altino Bessa
- Artur Rêgo
- Assunção Cristas
- Cecília Meireles
- Durval Tiago Ferreira
- Filipe Lobo D' Ávila
- Helder Amaral
- Isabel Galriça Neto
- João Pinho de Almeida
- João Rebelo
- João Serpa Oliva
- José Manuel Rodrigues
- José Ribeiro e Castro
- Maria Antonieta Dias
- Michael Seufert
- Nuno Magalhães
- Paulo Portas
- Pedro Brandão Rodrigues
- Pedro Mota Soares
- Raúl de Almeida
- Telmo Correia
- Teresa Caeiro
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: 5 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.