Paula Inês Alves de Sousa Real (born 6 June 1980) is a Portuguese jurist and politician who is currently president of the People Animals Nature parliamentary group in the Assembly of the Republic.

[1] At the PAN convention on 6 June 2021, she was elected on a single list as the spokesperson of the party.

[2] With a degree in law and a master's degree in animal and society law, Sousa Real has been a jurist at the Municipality of Sintra since 2006 and she was head of the Tax Enforcement and Administrative Offenses Division from 2015 to October 2019.

[3][4] After André Lourenço e Silva announced he was stepping down, a party congress to elect a new leader was scheduled for the weekend of 5–6 June 2021.

On 6 June, she was elected as leader of PAN with 87.2% of the votes in the party's congress in Tomar.