Ana Mesquita | |
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Member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal | |
Assumed office 2015 | |
Parliamentary group | Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU) |
Constituency | (1) Lisbon;(2) Porto |
Personal details | |
Born | Ana Cristina Cardoso Dias Mesquita 22 March 1979 Vila Nova de Gaia,Portugal |
Political party | ![]() Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) |
Spouse | Ricardo Filipe Mateus de Matos Bastos |
Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
Occupation | Archaeologist |
Ana Mesquita is a Portuguese archaeologist. Since 2015 she has been a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal representing the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU),which is a coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP),of which she is a member,and the Ecologist Party "The Greens".
Ana Cristina Cardoso Dias Mesquita was born in Portugal's second city of Porto on 22 March 1979. She lived most of her youth in the town of Rio Tinto in the municipality of Gondomar,north of Porto. Mesquita obtained a degree in archaeology and history from the University of Coimbra and became a practising archaeologist in 2009. At a young age she was a keen soccer player. She continued to play while at university in Coimbra and,later,for the C.D. Olivais e Moscavide club in Lisbon. [1] [2] [3]
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