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paragraph_text: Luís Filipe Montenegro Cardoso de Morais Esteves (European Portuguese:; born 16 February 1973) is a Portuguese politician and lawyer serving as the prime minister of Portugal since April 2024. He is the president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and he leads the 25th Constitutional Government.
  
  Montenegro was a member of the Assembly of the Republic from Aveiro from 2002 to 2018, leading his party's parliamentary group between 2011 and 2017. After being defeated by Rui Rio in his party's 2020 leadership election, he won against Jorge Moreira da Silva in 2022 and became President of the PSD.
  
  Under Montenegro’s leadership, the PSD and CDS-PP formed the centre-right Democratic Alliance and won a plurality of seats in the 2024 Portuguese legislative election. He was appointed prime minister by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, leading the XXIV Constitutional Government, a coalition minority government. His government fell in March 2025 after losing a vote of confidence amid an alleged conflict of interest affair, but the Democratic Alliance increased its plurality of seats in the subsequent snap election and formed the XXV Constitutional Government.