2020 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election
The 2020 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election was held on 11 and 18 January 2020. As no candidate received a majority of all valid votes on the first round, held on 11 January 2020, a second round took place one week later, 18 January, between the two candidates with the highest number of votes in the first round. This was the first time that a Social Democratic Party leadership election was contested on a second ballot.
Image: EPP Summit, 22 March 2018 (27083908678) (cropped, Rui Rio)
Image: Miguel Pinto Luz (cropped)
Image: EPP Summit, Brussels, October 2018 (43568572310)
Image: The Gathering SAM 1226 (49005135853)
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
The Social Democratic Party is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that is currently the country's ruling party. Commonly known by its colloquial initials PSD, on ballot papers its initials appear as its official form PPD/PSD, with the first three letters coming from the party's original name, the Democratic People's Party. A party of the centre-right, the PSD is one of the two major parties in Portuguese politics, its rival being the Socialist Party (PS) on the centre-left.
Francisco Sá Carneiro (1934–1980), PSD founder and Prime Minister (1980)
Manuela Ferreira Leite, the first woman to lead a major party in Portuguese democracy and the still only woman to ever lead the PSD.
Luís Montenegro, leader since 2022 and Prime Minister since 2024.
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Prime Minister 1981–1983.