Government of PortugalAssembly of the Republic: MPs and attendance · XII Legislature
- PCP: 14
- PEV: 2
- BE: 8
- PS: 74
- PSD: 108
- CDS-PP: 24
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Who represents me?
The MPs for each of the 22 constituencies
Who was absent at the last plenary sitting?
22 July 2015: 3 justified absences, no unjustified, none not yet classified
227of 230 MPs present in the chamber
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· 0
· 3
- Alberto Martins PS · reason: Trabalho Político
- Graça Mota PSD · reason: Doença
- Pedro Roque PSD · reason: Trabalho Político
At the of 22 July 2015, 227 of the 230 MPs were present in the chamber. Absences: 3 and none . (source)
How many MPs were absent, by party?
6 groups, all on the same scale
Across the 469 of read so far, the Assembly made 107,868 records (one per MP per sitting). Absences: 4,336 and 41 . (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 | 20 | 6566 | 6305 | 1 | 59 | 201 | 0 | 0 |
| PEV | 2 | 938 | 928 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| BE | 13 | 3752 | 3614 | 4 | 15 | 119 | 0 | 0 |
| PS | 103 | 34705 | 31982 | 18 | 1009 | 1690 | 6 | 0 |
| PSD | 138 | 50651 | 47422 | 22 | 1336 | 1860 | 11 | 0 |
| CDS-PP | 36 | 11256 | 10513 | 4 | 250 | 465 | 24 | 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?
312 names in 6 groups
Partido Ecologista «Os Verdes» (PEV · 2)
Partido Socialista (PS · 103)
- Acácio Pinto
- Agostinho Santa
- Alberto Costa
- Alberto Martins
- Ana Catarina Mendonça Mendes
- Ana Jorge
- Ana Paula Vitorino
- Anabela Freitas
- António Braga
- António Cardoso
- António Gameiro
- António José Seguro
- António Serrano
- Augusto Santos Silva
- Basílio Horta
- Bravo Nico
- Carlos Enes
- Carlos Zorrinho
- Catarina Marcelino
- Celeste Correia
- Duarte Cordeiro
- Eduardo Cabrita
- Elza Pais
- Eurídice Pereira
- Fernando Jesus
- Fernando Medina
- Fernando Serrasqueiro
- Ferro Rodrigues
- Filipe Neto Brandão
- Francisco de Assis
- Glória Araújo
- Hortense Martins
- Idália Salvador Serrão
- Inês de Medeiros
- Inês Drummond
- Isabel Alves Moreira
- Isabel Coutinho
- Isabel Oneto
- Isabel Santos
- Isabel Sena Lino
- Ivo Oliveira
- Jacinto Serrão
- João Galamba
- João Paulo Correia
- João Paulo Pedrosa
- João Portugal
- João Soares
- Jorge Fão
- Jorge Lacão
- Jorge Manuel Gonçalves
- Jorge Rodrigues Pereira
- Jorge Seguro Sanches
- José Junqueiro
- José Lello
- José Magalhães
- Laurentino Dias
- Luís Pita Ameixa
- Luísa Salgueiro
- Manuel Mota
- Manuel Pizarro
- Manuel Seabra
- Marcos Perestrello
- Maria Antónia de Almeida Santos
- Maria Coelho Ferreira
- Maria de Belém Roseira
- Maria Gabriela Canavilhas
- Maria Helena André
- Mário Ruivo
- Miguel Coelho
- Miguel Freitas
- Miguel Ginestal
- Miguel Laranjeiro
- Miranda Calha
- Mota Andrade
- Nuno André Figueiredo
- Nuno Mocinha
- Nuno Sá
- Odete João
- Paula Barros
- Paulo Pisco
- Paulo Ribeiro de Campos
- Pedro Delgado Alves
- Pedro Farmhouse
- Pedro Jesus Marques
- Pedro Nuno Santos
- Pedro Silva Pereira
- Ramos Preto
- Renato Sampaio
- Ricardo Gonçalves
- Ricardo Rodrigues
- Rosa Maria Bastos Albernaz
- Rui Caetano
- Rui Jorge Santos
- Rui Paulo Figueiredo
- Rui Pedro Duarte
- Rui Pereira
- Sandra Cardoso
- Sandra Galguinho
- Sandra Pontedeira
- Sérgio Sousa Pinto
- Sónia Fertuzinhos
- Vieira da Silva
- Vitalino Canas
Partido Social Democrata (PSD · 138)
- Adão Silva
- Adelaide Canastro
- Adriano Rafael Moreira
- Afonso Oliveira
- Amadeu Soares Albergaria
- Ana Oliveira
- Ana Sofia Bettencourt
- André Pardal
- Andreia Neto
- Ângela Guerra
- António Almeida Henriques
- António Leitão Amaro
- António Prôa
- António Rodrigues
- Arménio Santos
- Assunção Esteves
- Bruno Coimbra
- Bruno Inácio
- Bruno Vitorino
- Carina Oliveira
- Carla Rodrigues
- Carlos Abreu Amorim
- Carlos Alberto Gonçalves
- Carlos Costa Neves
- Carlos Moedas
- Carlos Páscoa Gonçalves
- Carlos Peixoto
- Carlos Santos Silva
- Carlos São Martinho
- Carlos Silva e Sousa
- Clara Marques Mendes
- Cláudia Monteiro de Aguiar
- Conceição Bessa Ruão
- Correia de Jesus
- Couto dos Santos
- Cristóvão Crespo
- Cristóvão Norte
- Cristóvão Simão Ribeiro
- Duarte Marques
- Duarte Pacheco
- Eduardo Teixeira
- Elsa Cordeiro
- Emídio Guerreiro
- Emília Santos
- Feliciano Barreiras Duarte
- Fernando Marques
- Fernando Negrão
- Fernando Nobre
- Fernando Virgílio Macedo
- Francisca Almeida
- Francisco Gomes
- Francisco José Viegas
- Gabriel Côrte-real Goucha
- Graça Mota
- Guilherme Silva
- Hélder Sousa Silva
- Hermínia Azenha
- Hugo Lopes Soares
- Hugo Velosa
- Isabel Simões Pinto
- Isidro Araújo
- Isilda Aguincha
- Joana Barata Lopes
- João Figueiredo
- João Lobo
- João Prata
- Joaquim Ponte
- Joaquim Seixas
- Jorge Paulo Oliveira
- José Cesário
- José de Matos Correia
- José de Matos Rosa
- José Manuel Canavarro
- José Pedro Aguiar Branco
- Laura Esperança
- Lídia Bulcão
- Luís Campos Ferreira
- Luís Leite Ramos
- Luís Menezes
- Luís Montenegro
- Luís Pedro Pimentel
- Luís Vales
- Manuel Meirinho Martins
- Margarida Almeida
- Maria Conceição Pereira
- Maria da Conceição Caldeira
- Maria das Mercês Borges
- Maria Ester Vargas
- Maria João Ávila
- Maria José Castelo Branco
- Maria José Moreno
- Maria José Nogueira Pinto
- Maria Luís Casanova
- Maria Manuela Tender
- Maria Paula Cardoso
- Mário Magalhães
- Mário Simões
- Maurício Marques
- Mendes Bota
- Miguel Frasquilho
- Miguel Macedo
- Miguel Relvas
- Miguel Santos
- Mónica Ferro
- Mota Amaral
- Nilza de Sena
- Nuno Encarnação
- Nuno Filipe Matias
- Nuno Reis
- Nuno Sá Costa
- Nuno Serra
- Odete Silva
- Paula Gonçalves
- Paula Teixeira da Cruz
- Paulo Batista Santos
- Paulo Cavaleiro
- Paulo Mota Pinto
- Paulo Rios de Oliveira
- Paulo Simões Ribeiro
- Pedro Alves
- Pedro do Ó Ramos
- Pedro Lynce
- Pedro Passos Coelho
- Pedro Pimpão
- Pedro Pinto
- Pedro Roque
- Pedro Saraiva
- Ricardo Baptista Leite
- Ricardo Santos
- Rosa Arezes
- Sérgio Azevedo
- Sérgio Humberto
- Teresa Costa Santos
- Teresa Leal Coelho
- Teresa Morais
- Ulisses Pereira
- Valter Ribeiro
- Vasco Cunha
CDS – Partido Popular (CDS-PP · 36)
- Abel Baptista
- Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
- Altino Bessa
- Artur Rêgo
- Assunção Cristas
- Cecília Meireles
- Fernando Barbosa
- Filipe Lobo D' Ávila
- Helder Amaral
- Inês Teotónio Pereira
- Isabel Galriça Neto
- João Gonçalves Pereira
- João Paulo Viegas
- João Pinho de Almeida
- João Rebelo
- João Serpa Oliva
- José Lino Ramos
- José Manuel Rodrigues
- José Ribeiro e Castro
- Manuel Isaac
- Margarida Neto
- Michael Seufert
- Nuno Magalhães
- Orísia Roque
- Otília Ferreira Gomes
- Paulo Almeida
- Paulo Portas
- Pedro Morais Soares
- Pedro Mota Soares
- Raúl de Almeida
- Rui Barreto
- Rui Jorge Caetano
- Telmo Correia
- Teresa Anjinho
- Teresa Caeiro
- Vera Rodrigues
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: 4 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.