Luís Maria de Barros Serra Marques Guedes (born 25 August 1957) is a Portuguese

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and

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. He was Secretary of State for the Presidency of the

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of the government of

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, Secretary of State to the

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, and the Government XII Undersecretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister. He held the position of Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the

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, of which he has been a member since 1995. When he ceased his activities as Minister of the Presidency, in late 2015, he became President of the Parliamentary Commission on Ethics, a section of the First Commission on Fundamental Rights. He was deputy mayor of

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, and was responsible for the legal departments, municipal police, and civil protection. He was also a member of the Municipal Assembly of Cascais and chairman of the Youth Institute. He is a younger brother of

Armando Marques Guedes Armando Manuel de Barros Serra Marques Guedes (born 9 September 1952 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a political scientist, anthropologist and a former diplomat with expertise in international relations, political science, theory and philosophy, diplomac ...

, political scientist, anthropologist and former diplomat.

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Minister Of The Presidency And Parliamentary Affairs.
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