The Ministry of Territorial Cohesion () was a Portuguese government ministry responsible for a balanced regional development and for the reduction of regional economic disparities, as well as cooperating with the regional policy of the European Union.
The Ministry was created in 2019, in António Costa's XXII Constitutional Government. In previous cabinets, the regional development sector was usually the responsibility of the Minister of the Presidency, of the Minister of Economy, or of the Minister of Environment.
In June 2025, the Ministry was merged with the Ministry of Economy by the XXV Constitutional Government, creating the Ministry of Economy and Territorial Cohesion.
List of Ministers Colour key #PortraitNameTook officeLeft officePartyPrime Minister1José Luís Arnaut(b. 1963)17 July 200412 March 2005PSDPedro Santana Lopes2Francisco Nunes Correia(b. 1951)12 March 200526 October 2009PSJosé Sócrates3José Vieira da Silva(b. 1953)26 October 200921 June 2011PS–Vacant office21 June 201113 April 2013Pedro Passos Coelho4Miguel Poiares Maduro(b. 1967)13 April 201330 October 2015PSD5Luís Marques Guedes(b. 1957)30 October 201526 November 2015PSD–Vacant office26 November 201526 October 2019António Costa6Ana Abrunhosa(b. 1970)26 October 20192 April 2024PS7Manuel Castro Almeida(b. 1957)2 April 2024presentPSDLuís Montenegro
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