The Left Bloc,colloquially shortened as O Bloco,is a left-wing populist and democratic socialist political party in Portugal founded in 1999. It is currently led by Mariana Mortágua.
Francisco JoséPereira de Assis Miranda is a Portuguese politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party. He was part of the Party of European Socialists from 2004 to 2009,and again from 2014 until 2019. He is also a former mayor of Amarante,having been in office from 1989 to 1995,and member of the Assembly of Republic on two occasions,the first from 1995 to 2004 and the second from 2009 to 2014.
Francisco Anacleto Louçã is a Portuguese economist and politician.
An election of the delegation from Portugal to the European Parliament was held on 7 June 2009.
Rui Miguel Marcelino Tavares Pereira is a Portuguese historian and politician. He has been elected a Member of the Assembly of the Republic in the 2022 legislative election,and has been a member of the Lisbon City Council since 2021.
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.
João Nuno de Lacerda Teixeira de Melo is a Portuguese lawyer,conservative politician who is serving as Minister of National Defence,also being a member of the Assembly of the Republic,elected by Porto constituency. He was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing the Democratic and Social Centre –People's Party (CDS-PP),of which he is president.
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.
AndréClaro Amaral Ventura is a Portuguese politician,university teacher,former sports pundit,and founder of the right-wing populist political party Chega.
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 place as 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.
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.
Setúbal is one of the 22 multi-member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic,the national legislature of Portugal. The constituency was established in 1976 when the Assembly of the Republic was established by the constitution following the restoration of democracy. It is conterminous with the district of Setúbal. The constituency currently elects 19 of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2024 legislative election it had 749,090 registered electors.
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.
Isabel Cristina Rua Pires is a Portuguese politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic,the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the Left Bloc,she has represented Lisbon from October 2015 to March 2022 and Porto from September 2023 to March 2024. She had also been a temporary substitute member of the Assembly from February 2023 to August 2023.
