Clara Marques Mendes

Clara Marques Mendes
Secretary of State for Social Action and Inclusion
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 April 2024
Prime MinisterLuís Montenegro
MinisterMaria do Rosário Palma Ramalho
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
20 June 2011 – 5 April 2024
ConstituencyBraga
Personal details
Born
Maria Clara Gonçalves Marques Mendes

(1970-04-30) 30 April 1970 (age 54)
Fafe, Portugal
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Spouse
Sérgio Lobo Ribeiro
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(m. 2016)​
Children1
ParentAntónio Marques Mendes (father)
RelativesLuís Marques Mendes (brother)
OccupationLawyer • politician

Maria Clara Gonçalves Marques Mendes (born 30 April 1970) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. She represents the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal.

Family

Maria Clara Gonçalves Marques Mendes was born on 30 April 1970. She is the daughter of Maria Isabel Gonçalves and her husband, António Marques Mendes, who was a lawyer and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party. Her brother is a former leader of the PSD, Luís Marques Mendes. She married Sérgio Lobo Ribeiro in 2016.[1][2][3]

Political career

Clara Marques Mendes obtained a degree in law and then practised law at her father's law office in Fafe, a town in the northern Portuguese district of Braga. Invited to be part of the PSD list for Braga in the 2011 national elections, she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic. She was re-elected in 2015, 2019, 2022 and 2024. From 2013 to 2020 she was also a deputy in the municipal assembly of Fafe.[4][5][6]

Mendes has been a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Work and Social Security, an alternate on the Committee on European Matters and, more recently, and an alternate on the committee that investigates ways of achieving economic and social recovery from COVID-19.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "VIP: Passos Coelho esteve presente no casamento da deputada fafense Clara Marques Mendes e Sérgio Lobo Ribeiro". Jornal de Fafe. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Ser deputado. Tal pai, tal filha". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. ^ ""Achavam que eu era como o meu pai"". SAPO. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Biografia: Maria Clara Gonçalves Marques Mendes". Assembleia de República. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Clara Marques Mendes". Grupo Parlamentar PSD. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Eleições Legislativas 2024. Deputados Eleitos". CNN. Retrieved 17 March 2024.