Pedro Duarte (politician)

Pedro Miguel de Azeredo Duarte (born 12 July 1973) is a Portuguese jurist and politician. He has been Minister of Parliamentary Affairs since 2024, in the XXIV Constitutional Government, led by Luís Montenegro.

He served as a member of the Assembly of the Republic between 1999 and 2011, elected for the Social Democratic Party.

He has a degree in law from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a master's degree in International Economics and European Studies from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management.

Pedro Duarte led the Social Democratic Youth National Political Commission from 1998 to 2002. He chaired the Parliamentary Committee on Youth and Sports, between 1999 and 2001, when he was an MP, and on Education, Science and Culture, from 2002 to 2004. He was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

He was also vice-president of the PSD Parliamentary Group and of the YEPP Youth Bureau of the European People's Party, between 2003 and 2005. He was Secretary of State for Youth in the XVI Constitutional Government, led by Pedro Santana Lopes. Between 2011 and 2024 he was the Director of Corporate Affairs at Microsoft Portugal.

After having directed the campaign for Luís Filipe Menezes' defeated candidacy for the Porto mayorship in 2013, he was in charge of directing Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa's campaign for the 2016 presidential campaign, won by Marcelo in the first round.