José Luís Carneiro

José Luís Carneiro
Carneiro in 2023
Secretary-General of the Socialist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 June 2025
PresidentCarlos César
Preceded byPedro Nuno Santos
Minister of Internal Administration
In office
30 March 2022 – 2 April 2024
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byFrancisca Van Dunem
Succeeded byMargarida Blasco
Deputy Secretary-General of the Socialist Party
In office
17 October 2019 – 30 March 2022
Secretary-GeneralAntónio Costa
Preceded byAna Catarina Mendes
Succeeded byJoão Torres
Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities
In office
26 November 2015 – 26 October 2019
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
Preceded byJosé Cesário
Succeeded byBerta Nunes
Mayor of Baião
In office
2 November 2005 – 25 August 2015
Preceded byEmília dos Anjos Pereira da Silva
Succeeded byPaulo Pereira
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 March 2022
ConstituencyBraga
In office
25 October 2019 – 28 March 2022
ConstituencyPorto
In office
23 October 2015 – 26 November 2015
ConstituencyPorto
In office
10 March 2005 – 2 November 2005
ConstituencyPorto
Personal details
BornJosé Luís Pereira Carneiro
(1971-10-04) 4 October 1971
Baião, Porto, Portugal
PartySocialist Party
SpouseMaria Goreti Carneiro
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon

José Luís Pereira Carneiro (born 4 October 1971) is a Portuguese politician from the Socialist Party (PS) and has been the party's Secretary-General since 28 June 2025. He has been a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024. He previously served in the government between 2015 a 2024 and in the assembly briefly in 2005 and 2015. Carneiro served as the Mayor of Baião from 2005 to 2015.

Early life

Carneiro was born on 4 October 1971 in Baião, Porto, Portugal. He studied at University of Lisbon.[1][2]

Political career

Carneiro was first elected as a councillor to the municipality of Baião in the 1997 Portuguese local elections. In the 2005 Portuguese legislative election he was elected for the Assembly of the Republic from Porto,[3] before resigning from that post in order to run for mayor of Baião in the 2005 Portuguese local elections, which he won with 51% of the votes,[4] being re-elected with landslide margins in the 2009 and 2013 local elections.[1][2]

After 10 years in office as mayor, Carneiro resigned from the post to become Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities during António Costa's first government (2015–2019). After that, Costa chose him as deputy secretary-general of the Socialist Party. Carneiro served as Minister of Internal Administration in the XXIII Constitutional Government of Portugal from 2022 to 2024.[5]

Polling in 2023 found him to be the most popular minister in the government of Costa. Following Costa's resignation as the prime minister of Portugal, Carneiro was a candidate for the leadership of the PS.[6] On 16 December 2023, he lost against Pedro Nuno Santos in an internal vote.[7] He was the lead candidate in Braga for the 2025 Portuguese legislative election.[8]

Carneiro was reportedly a possible contender for the 2026 Portuguese presidential election but declined to be a candidate.[9]

Secretary-General of the Socialist Party

After the Socialists' weak results in the 2025 Portuguese legislative election, where the party fell to third place in terms of seats, behind the far-right party Chega, a leadership ballot was called for 27 and 28 June 2025.[10] Carneiro announced his candidacy and was the only candidate on the ballot, resulting in him becoming the next PS Secretary-General.[11] On 28 June 2025, the PS announced that Carneiro had been elected Secretary-General.[12]

Political views

Carneiro has been described as a moderate socialist contrary to his predecessor Pedro Nuno Santos, who is connoted with the PS' informal left faction, and António Costa who was a descendant of the Sampaioist faction.[13] Internally he supported José Sócrates in 2004[14] and António José Seguro in 2011 and 2014 having served in the national secretariat of the later.[15] In the 2016 presidential election Carneiro supported Maria de Belém Roseira, with whom he has close political relations.[16]

As Secretary-general, Carneiro has positioned PS as a habour for all democrats, democratic socialists, social democrats and christian democrats, having attracted former CDS members to colaborate with the party, namely Filipe Lobo d'Ávila and Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos.[17]

Carneiro has defended the blue economy, the youth, the housing crisis, healthcare, local power reforms and regime pacts with the Democratic Alliance as his priorities.[18]

Personal life

José Luís Carneiro is married to Maria Goreti Carneiro and has two children.[19]

Electoral history

Baião City Council election, 2001
Ballot: 16 December 2001
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PSD Maria Emília Silva7,08748.94±0
PS José Luís Carneiro6,75446.63±0
CDU Manuel Silva Rodrigues2021.40±0
CDS–PP –1210.80±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 3442.4––
Turnout 14,50877.177±0
Source: Autárquicas 2001[20]
Baião City Council election, 2005
Ballot: 9 October 2005
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Luís Carneiro7,48350.94+1
PSD Maria Emília Silva6,66045.33–1
CDS–PP Mário Guedes Negrão1380.90±0
CDU António Gomes1280.90±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 2972.0––
Turnout 14,70678.127±0
Source: Autárquicas 2005[4][21]
Baião City Council election, 2009
Ballot: 11 October 2009
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Luís Carneiro9,37566.85+1
PSD José Carlos Póvoas4,10229.32–1
CDU José Luis Pereira1971.40±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 3522.5––
Turnout 14,02672.367±0
Source: Autárquicas 2009[1]
Baião City Council election, 2013
Ballot: 29 September 2013
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS José Luís Carneiro8,57371.46+1
PSD Luís Miguel Sousa2,21118.41–1
CDS–PP José Carlos Póvoas4984.20±0
CDU Adérito Manuel Vieira1911.60±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 5324.4––
Turnout 12,00565.407±0
Source: Autárquicas 2013[2]
PS leadership election, 2023
Ballot: 15 and 16 December 2023
Candidate Votes %
Pedro Nuno Santos 24,219 60.8
José Luís Carneiro 14,891 37.4
Daniel Adrião 382 1.0
Blank/Invalid ballots 322 0.8
Turnout 39,814 68.65
Source: Diretas 2023[22]
PS leadership election, 2025
Ballot: 27 and 28 June 2025
Candidate Votes %
José Luís Carneiro 17,434 95.5
Blank/Invalid ballots 829 4.5
Turnout 18,263 48.9
Source: Results
PS leadership election, 2026
Ballot: 13 and 14 March 2026
Candidate Votes %
José Luís Carneiro 21,219 97.1
Blank/Invalid ballots 628 2.9
Turnout 21,848 55.3
Source: Results

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Autárquicas 2009". SGMAI. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Autárquicas 2013". SGMAI. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  3. ↑ "José Luís Carneiro". www.ps.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Eleições Autárquicas 2005". STAPE Justice Ministry (in Portuguese). 9 October 2005. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Biografia". www.parlamento.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. ↑ Donn, Natasha (9 November 2023). "Government's most popular minister 'ponders' standing for leadership". Portugal Resident. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  7. ↑ Tommaso Lecca (17 December 2023), Portugal’s Socialists elect new leader after Costa’s resignation Politico Europe.
  8. ↑ "José Luís Carneiro é cabeça de lista do PS por Braga nas legislativas". Jornal SOL (in European Portuguese). 2 April 2025. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  9. ↑ ""Ainda sou muito jovem para presidenciais", diz José Luís Carneiro". www.msn.com. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  10. ↑ "Carlos César propõe eleições internas do PS a 27 e 28 de junho". RTP (in Portuguese). 24 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "José Luís Carneiro é candidato único à sucessão de Pedro Nuno Santos". Sapo (in Portuguese). 13 June 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
  12. ↑ ""Somos um partido de oposição a este Governo". José Luís Carneiro é o novo secretário-geral do PS". RTP (in Portuguese). 28 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
  13. ↑ "Carneiro, o moderado que os socialistas escolheram para salvar o partido numa corrida sem opositores". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  14. ↑ "DEBATER AS IDEIAS ESCOLHER OS PROTAGONISTAS" (PDF). Ação Socialista: 7.
  15. ↑ "Pesos-pesados do PS escolhem trincheiras: quem está com quem?". www.jornaldenegocios.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  16. ↑ Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de (14 March 2026). "José Luís Carneiro reeleito diz ter visto "esperança" em quem se "reconcilia com o PS"". José Luís Carneiro reeleito diz ter visto "esperança" em quem se "reconcilia com o PS" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  17. ↑ "PS de Carneiro atrai católicos progressistas do CDS de Melo". SOL (in Portuguese). 14 April 2026. Retrieved 19 June 2026.
  18. ↑ https://expresso.pt/partidos-politicos/2026-03-14-jose-luis-carneiro-ganha-ps-com-969-e-anuncia-jovens-que-nao-trabalham-nem-estudam-como-prioridade-cd93fd5b. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. ↑ "Registo de interesses dos membros do governo" (PDF). Assembleia da República (in Portuguese). 20 June 2022. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  20. ↑ "Eleições Autárquicas 2001" (PDF). STAPE Justice Ministry. 27 March 2001. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
  21. ↑ "Auto de Sorteio das Listas Eleições AL 2005" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
  22. ↑ "Resultados Provisórios Federações" (PDF). PS. December 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
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