Sónia Monteiro

Sónia Cristina de Sousa Monteiro (born 1980) is a Portuguese politician and journalist. In the 2024 Portuguese national election she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a representative of the right-wing CHEGA party.

Early life
Monteiro was born in Felgueiras in the Porto District of the north of Portugal on 22 March 1980.

Political career
CHEGA was a new party, with right-wing or extreme-right policies, that won just one seat in the 2019 national election and twelve seats in the 2022 election. In the March 2024 election, Monteiro was chosen to be sixth on the party's list of candidates for the Porto constituency, with the party hoping to win either five or six seats in the constituency. It won seven of the 40 available in the constituency and 50 seats overall in the country, making it the third largest party in the Assembly, and Monteiro was elected.

Her campaign included emphasis on reducing outmigration of youth from rural areas. In the parliament she was appointed to the Committee on Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport.