António José Seguro

About

António José Martins Seguro (born 11 March 1962) is a Portuguese politician who has been the president of Portugal since 2026, having won the 2026 Portuguese presidential election. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), Seguro previously served as secretary-general of the PS from 2011 to 2014, during which time he was also the leader of the opposition.

== Early life and education ==

Seguro was born on 11 March 1962 in Penamacor, the third and youngest son of Domingos Sanches Seguro (1925–2017) and Maria do Céu Martins (1927–2012). The family comprised mostly rural workers from the Beira Baixa region; Seguro’s father, Domingos, ran a newsagent’s.
His early studies were undertaken in Penamacor in the Preparatory School Ribeiro Sanches and in the Nossa Senhora do Incenso Day School, before he went to Castelo Branco to finish high school in the Industrial and Commercial School. During this time, he was arrested before the Carnation Revolution, while still a minor.
In his youth, Seguro ran a local newspaper, A Verdade de Penamacor, with his cousin Jorge Seguro Sanches. In 1982, during a visit of President António Ramalho Eanes to Penamacor, Seguro diverged First Lady Manuela Eanes from the…