Mariana Leitão
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Mariana Leitão | |
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.png) Leitão in 2025 | |
| President of the Liberal Initiative | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Miguel Rangel (acting) |
| President of the Parliamentary Group of the Liberal Initiative | |
| In office 26 March 2024 – 21 October 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Saraiva |
| Succeeded by | Mário Amorim Lopes |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Member of the Oeiras Municipal Assembly | |
| In office 26 September 2021 – 12 October 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mariana de Lemos Barreira Quintão Correia Leitão 28 September 1982 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Party | Liberal Initiative (since 2019) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Lusíada University of Lisbon |
Mariana de Lemos Quintão Correia Leitão (born 28 September 1982) is a Portuguese politician, business administrator and international contract bridge competitor. In the March 2024 national election she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as one of eight members of the Liberal Initiative (IL) party. She was then elected unanimously by the other seven as the parliamentary leader of the party.[1][2]
Leitão was born in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on 28 September 1982. She graduated in 2005 in international relations, from the Lusíada University of Lisbon. Since then, she has taken three post-graduate courses: in business management, from the European University of Lisbon, in international management from ISCTE in Lisbon, and in data science and business analytics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) in Lisbon. From graduation to 2019 she worked in the field of business administration.[3][4][5]