The Left Bloc,colloquially shortened as O Bloco,is a left-wing populist,democratic socialist political party in Portugal founded in 1999. It is currently led by Mariana Mortágua.
The Popular Democratic Union is a Marxist political movement in Portugal. The UDP transformed itself into a political association at its 15th congress due to its merger with other left-wing parties in the Left Bloc.
An election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament was held on 7 June 2009.
Joana Beatriz Nunes Vicente Amaral Dias is a Portuguese politician and clinical psychologist. She was member of the Portuguese Parliament for the Left Bloc (2002–2005).
The 2015 Portuguese legislative election was held on 4 October. All 230 seats of the Assembly of the Republic were in contention.
Miguel Guedes is a Portuguese musician,songwriter,singer,and the lead vocalist of Portuguese band Blind Zero. He is also a lawyer,and has a column where he writes about politics on the Portuguese journal Jornal de Notícias. He is an employee of the GDA - Cooperativa de Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas Intérpretes ou Executantes,dealing with related rights issues. Miguel Guedes appears on the weekly RTP programme Trio D'Ataque where he talks about football and expresses his point of view as a lover of football and a supporter of FC Porto. Since February 2023 he has been the chairman of Coliseu do Porto. He votes Bloco de Esquerda and writes for the official party's online publication Esquerda.net. Guedes graduated from the University of Coimbra with a degree in law.
Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias is a Portuguese sociologist and politician. She is a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2024. She was also a Member of the European Parliament,between 2009 and 2024. She currently seated on the Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Industry,Research and Energy (ITRE) Committees. She was also Chairwoman of the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with the Mashreq countries. Between 2010 and 2016 she was Vice-President of the Party of the European Left.
The 2019 Portuguese legislative election was held on 6 October 2019. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were contested.
Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua is a Portuguese economist and politician who is the National Coordinator of the Left Bloc,serving since 28 May 2023. In 2013,she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal,replacing Ana Drago.
The Liberal Initiative,often simply IL is a liberal political party in Portugal. Founded in 2017,it is currently led by Rui Rocha. The party has been described as being on the political right by academics and journalists.
An election was held in Portugal on Sunday,26 May 2019,to elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. This was the eighth European Parliament election held in Portugal.
Now the People ! (NTP) is a left-wing political movement in the European Union. It was founded in April 2018 by a declaration from Catarina Martins from the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda,Pablo Iglesias from the Spanish party Podemos,and Jean-Luc Mélenchon,leader of La France Insoumise (LFI),a French socialist party.
An election was held in Portugal on Sunday,9 June 2024,to elect the Portuguese delegation to the European Parliament from 2024 to 2029. It took part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election. This was the ninth European Parliament election held in Portugal. This election took place just three months after the 10 March 2024 legislative election,which resulted in a very narrow win for the Democratic Alliance,thus was seen as a "second round" of the March elections.
Early legislative elections were held on 30 January 2022 in Portugal to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election.
Beatriz Gomes Dias is a Portuguese teacher,activist and politician who was born in Senegal. She was elected as a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal,representing the Left Bloc,in 2019,but was not re-elected in the 2022 election. In the 2021 local elections,she was elected member of the Lisbon City Council.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in Portugal in January 2026. The elections will elect the successor to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa,who is barred from running for a third term.
Snap legislative elections were held on 10 March 2024 to elect members of the Assembly of the Republic to the 16th Legislature of Portugal. All 230 seats to the Assembly of the Republic were up for election. The elections were called in November 2023 after Prime Minister António Costa's resignation following an investigation around alleged corruption involving the award of contracts for lithium and hydrogen businesses.
Joana Rodrigues Mortágua is a Portuguese politician. A member of the Left Bloc,she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2015,representing Setúbal.
Members of Parliament in the 2024 Portuguese legislative election will be elected in a closed list proportional representation system. Each constituency in Portugal elects a certain number of MPs depending on their number of registered voters. This number ranges from a minimum of 2 MPs in Portalegre to 48 in Lisbon. In this page,the names of the head candidates by party and/or coalition for each constituency will be listed. The leader of each party/coalition is displayed in bold.
Fabian Filipe Figueiredo is a Portuguese politician and Sociologist from the Left Bloc. He has served for a short period as a member of the Assembly of the Republic,from April to June 2021. He was elected in the 2024 legislative election as a deputy from Lisbon.
