| Luís Marques Mendes | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GCIH |
| Office3: | President of the Social Democratic Party |
| Term Start3: | 8 April 2005 |
| Term End3: | 12 October 2007 |
| Predecessor3: | Pedro Santana Lopes |
| Successor3: | Luís Filipe Menezes |
| Office4: | Minister of Parliamentary Affairs |
| Term Start4: | 6 April 2002 |
| Term End4: | 17 July 2004 |
| Primeminister4: | José Manuel Barroso |
| Predecessor4: | António Costa |
| Successor4: | Rui Gomes da Silva |
| Office5: | Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister |
| Term Start5: | 19 March 1992 |
| Term End5: | 28 October 1995 |
| Primeminister5: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Predecessor5: | António Couto dos Santos |
| Successor5: | Jorge Coelho |
| Office6: | Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers |
| Term Start6: | 17 August 1987 |
| Term End6: | 19 March 1992 |
| Primeminister6: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Predecessor6: | Pedro Santana Lopes |
| Successor6: | Paulo Teixeira Pinto |
| Birth Date: | 5 September 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Guimarães, Portugal |
| Children: | 3 |
| Party: | Social Democratic Party (since 1974) |
| Alma Mater: | University of Coimbra |
| Office7: | Under Secretary of State to the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs |
| Term Start7: | 8 November 1985 |
| Term End7: | 17 August 1987 |
| Relatives: | Clara Marques Mendes (sister) |
| Parents: | António Marques Mendes (father) Maria Isabel Gonçalves (mother) |
| Occupation: | Lawyer • Politician • Political commentator |
| Term Start8: | 31 October 1995 |
| Term End8: | 18 October 2007 |
| Birth Name: | Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes |
| Awards: | Order of Prince Henry |
| Termstart2: | 20 June 2011 |
| Termend2: | 22 October 2015 |
| Office9: | Deputy Mayor of Fafe |
| Office1: | Member of the Council of State |
| Term Start9: | 12 December 1976 |
| Termstart1: | 7 April 2016 |
| Constituency8: | Braga (1995–1999) Aveiro (1999–2007) |
| Term End9: | 8 November 1985 |
| Predecessor7: | António Vitorino |
| Successor7: | Carlos Encarnação |
| President1: | Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| President2: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| Primeminister7: | Aníbal Cavaco Silva |
| 3Namedata3: | Miguel Macedo |
| Height: | 1.62m (05.31feet) |
Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes, GCIH (born 5 September 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and a former Leader of the Social Democratic Party.
He is a son of António Marques Mendes and wife Maria Isabel Gonçalves.[1]
He is a Licentiate in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra.
He started his career as a lawyer.
As a member of the Social Democratic Party he became Secretary of State and Spokesman of the Government of Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva. He has also been a Deputy to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.[2]
He was elected the President of his Party in 2005 after Pedro Santana Lopes and was succeeded in September 2007 by Luís Filipe Menezes.
He is also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State, elected by the Assembly of the Republic.
He married in Guimarães, Vermil, on 24 April 1982, to Rosa Sofia Pinto Martins Salazar, born in Guimarães, Vermil, on 8 May 1957, a Licentiate in Modern Literatures and Languages (English and German), daughter of António Martins Fernandes Salazar (b. Guimarães, Vermil, Calçada, 19 May 1931), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife (m. Vila do Conde, São Miguel de Arcos, 21 April 1955) Berta da Silva Pinto (Penafiel, Penafiel, 23 May 1934 - Guimarães, Creixomil, 13 February 1995), and paternal granddaughter of José Fernandes Salazar (Guimarães, Vermil, 3 March 1890 - Porto, Miragaia, 1 December 1975), an Industrialist, one of the pioneers of the Ave, Subregion industrialization, and wife (m. Guimarães, Ronfe, 19 February 1925) Rosa Correia da Silva Martins (Guimarães, Ronfe, 2 January 1897 - Porto, Cedofeita, 31 August 1972). The couple has three children:[3]
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Luís Marques Mendes| align=right | 497| align=right | 56.6|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Luís Filipe Menezes| align=right | 381| align=right | 43.4|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 878| align=center | |-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: PSD Congress[5] |}
See main article: 2006 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Luís Marques Mendes| align=right | 18,832| align=right | 90.9|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 1,881| align=right | 9.1|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | Turnout| align=center | 20,713| align=center | 37.33|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Diretas 2006|}
See main article: 2007 Portuguese Social Democratic Party leadership election. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Luís Filipe Menezes| align=right | 21,101| align=right | 53.6|-|bgcolor=orange|| align=left | Luís Marques Mendes| align=right | 16,973| align=right | 43.1|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 1,279| align=right | 3.3|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 39,353| align=right | 62.42|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Diretas 2007|}