Miguel Portas

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Miguel Portas
Miguel Portas in 2009
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 2004 – 24 April 2012
Constituency	Portugal
Personal details
Born	Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas 1 May 1958 Lisbon, Portugal
Died	24 April 2012(2012-04-24) (aged 53) Antwerp, Belgium
Political party	Left Bloc (1999–2012)
Other political affiliations	Portuguese Communist Party (1973–1989) Platform of the Left (1992–1994) Politics XXI (1994–1999)
Children	3
Relatives	Paulo Portas (brother) Catarina Portas (half-sister) Sacadura Cabral (great-uncle)
Alma mater	Technical University of Lisbon

Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.

Miguel Portas was the older brother of the former Foreign Affairs Minister and former leader of the right-wing CDS–PP, Paulo Portas, and a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral.