| António José Seguro | |
| Office: | Secretary-General of the Socialist Party |
| Term Start: | 23 July 2011 |
| Term End: | 28 September 2014 |
| President: | António de Almeida Santos Maria de Belém Roseira |
| Predecessor: | José Sócrates |
| Successor: | António Costa |
| Office1: | President of the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party |
| Term Start1: | 31 March 2004 |
| Term End1: | 9 March 2005 |
| Predecessor1: | António Costa |
| Successor1: | Alberto Martins |
| Office3: | Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister |
| Primeminister3: | António Guterres |
| Term Start3: | 3 July 2001 |
| Term End3: | 8 April 2002 |
| Predecessor3: | Armando Vara |
| Successor3: | José Luís Arnaut |
| Office4: | Secretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister |
| Primeminister4: | António Guterres |
| Term Start4: | 25 November 1997 |
| Term End4: | 20 July 1999 |
| Predecessor4: | Luís Marques Guedes |
| Successor4: | Vitalino Canas |
| Office5: | Secretary of State for Youth Affairs |
| Primeminister5: | António Guterres |
| Term Start5: | 28 October 1995 |
| Term End5: | 25 November 1997 |
| Predecessor5: | Maria do Céu Ramos |
| Successor5: | Miguel Fontes |
| Office6: | Secretary-General of the Socialist Youth |
| Term Start6: | 29 April 1990 |
| Term End6: | 6 March 1994 |
| Predecessor6: | José Apolinário |
| Successor6: | Sérgio Sousa Pinto |
| Birth Date: | 11 March 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Penamacor, Portugal |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Lisbon University Institute Autonomous University of Lisbon |
| Office7: | [1] [2] |
| Term Start7: | 10 March 2005 |
| Term End7: | 8 October 2014 |
| Constituency7: | Braga |
| Term Start8: | 5 April 2002 |
| Term End8: | 9 March 2005 |
| Constituency8: | Lisbon |
| Term Start9: | 4 November 1991 |
| Term End9: | 26 October 1995 |
| Constituency9: | Porto |
| Office10: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Term Start10: | 20 July 1999 |
| Term End10: | 2 July 2001 |
| Constituency10: | Portugal |
António José Martins Seguro (born 11 March 1962) is a Portuguese politician for the Socialist Party (PS). Seguro was Secretary General of the PS from 2011 until September 2014, and he was the leader of the largest opposition party in the Portuguese Parliament.
Seguro was born on 11 March 1962 in Penamacor. He entered politics at a very young age and became a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) as a youth. He attended the 1st cycle program in business organization and management at the ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, but he did not graduate. Seguro has a degree in international relations awarded later by the Autonomous University of Lisbon.
Seguro became involved in political activities from a very young age, always linked to the Socialist Party (PS). He was successively secretary general of Socialist Youth, president of the National Youth Council and chairman of the Youth Forum of the European Communities. He was first elected to the Portuguese Parliament in 1991, and again eight years later. In 1995, the Socialist Party won the parliamentary elections, leaving the leader António Guterres to form a government. Seguro initially was Secretary of State for Youth and later assistant secretary of State's prime minister. After a cabinet reshuffle he was promoted to Deputy Minister of the Prime Minister.He also played the role of coordinator of the Standing Committee of the Portuguese Socialist Party and president of the Municipal Assembly of Penamacor. In 1999, António Guterres's PS again won the legislative elections and formed the XIV Constitutional Government, but Seguro moved to other functions. The former cabinet member was elected deputy to the European Parliament, between July 1999 and July 2001. In these two years, serving in the parliament, he was an effective member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (in these functions he was co-author of the Report on the Treaty of Nice and the Future of the European Union) and a substitute for the Commission for Employment and Social Affairs. He was also president of the Delegation for Relations with Central America and Mexico, vice president of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament and president of the Portuguese Socialist delegation. After leaving Parliament, he returned to the parliament, being reelected in the elections of 2002. He was also appointed member of the National Secretariat of the Socialist Party. After the municipal elections of December 2002, he accumulated these positions with membership in the Municipal Assembly of Gouveia.[3]
After Prime Minister José Sócrates resigned as PS General Secretary on the election night of 5 June 2011, having lost the general election by a margin higher than expected, Seguro was elected leader of the party on 23 July 2011, winning 68% of the vote; his challenger, Francisco Assis, got 32%.[4]
See main article: 2011 Portuguese Socialist 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"|%|-| style="background:#f6f;"|| align=left | António José Seguro| align=right | 23,903| align=right | 68.0|-| style="background:#f6f;"|| align=left | Francisco Assis| align=right | 11,257| align=right | 32.0|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 367| align=right | –|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 35,527| align=right | |-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Diretas 2011[5] |}
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-| style="background:#f6f;"|| align=left | António José Seguro| align=right | 24,843| align=right | 96.5|-| style="background:#f6f;"|| align=left | Aires Pedro| align=right | 892| align=right | 3.5|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 990| align=right | –|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 26,725| align=right | 62.10|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Diretas 2013[6] |}
See main article: 2014 Portuguese Socialist Party prime ministerial primary. |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=|| align=left | António Costa| align=right | 120,188| align=right | 67.8|-|bgcolor=|| align=left | António José Seguro| align=right | 55,928| align=right | 31.5|-| colspan=2 align=left | Blank/Invalid ballots| align=right | 1,234| align=right | 0.7|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 177,350| align=right | 70.71|-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Resultados[7] |}