The 1999 Portuguese legislative election took place on 10 October. The election renewed all 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic.
Maria Teresa de Mascarenhas Horta Barros is a Portuguese feminist poet,journalist and activist. She is one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portuguesas,together with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa. The authors,known as the "Three Marias," were arrested,jailed and prosecuted under Portuguese censorship laws in 1972,during the last years of the Estado Novo dictatorship. The book and their trial inspired protests in Portugal and attracted international attention from European and American women's liberation groups in the years leading up to the Carnation Revolution.
Adriano JoséAlves Moreira,ComC GCC GOIH GCSE was a Portuguese lawyer,professor and a leading political figure in Portugal throughout the second half of the 20th century.
Women in Portugal received full legal equality with Portuguese men as mandated by Portugal's constitution of 1976,which in turn resulted from the Revolution of 1974. Women were allowed to vote for the first time in Portugal in 1931 under Salazar's Estado Novo,but not on equal terms with men. The right for women to vote was later broadened twice under the Estado Novo. The first time was in 1946 and the second time in 1968 under Marcelo Caetano,law 2137 proclaimed the equality of men and women for electoral purposes. By the early part of the 1990s,many women of Portugal became professionals,including being medical doctors and lawyers,a leap from many being merely office employees and factory workers.
Luís Maria Kalidás da Costa Barreto GOL was a Portuguese accountant and unionist. Barreto was one of the founders of Portuguese trades union confederation,the CGTP,some five decades earlier,and died on 30 October 2020 in Castanheira de Pera,fourteen days after his 88th birthday.
Maria Helena do Rego da Costa Salema Roseta is a Portuguese architect,specialising in improvements to poorer neighbourhoods,and a politician who was a member of the Assembly of the Republic and President of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly and Mayor of Cascais.
Isabel de Lima Mayer Alves Moreira is a Portuguese jurist and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as a member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2011. She is known for her campaigns in favour of LGBT rights.
Romualda Fernandes is a Portuguese jurist and politician,originally from Guinea-Bissau. She was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a representative of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in 2019.
The 15th Legislature of the Third Portuguese Republic ran from 25 October 2019 to 4 December 2021. The composition of the Assembly of the Republic,the legislative body of Portugal,was determined by the results of the 2022 Portuguese legislative election held on 30 January.
Ana Sofia Antunes is a Portuguese politician who,from 2015 to 2024,held the government position of Secretary of State for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. Antunes was born blind.
Rosário Gambôa is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019,representing Porto. Prior to that,she was president of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP),a tertiary-level institute with 15,000 students.
Cristina Mendes da Silva is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2019,representing Porto.
Sofia Andrade is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS),she became a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic,representing Porto,in 2021,following the resignation of one of the incumbents,and was re-elected in the January 2022 election.
Isabel Meirelles is a Portuguese lawyer and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Meireles was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 and re-elected in 2022,as a representative of the Lisbon constituency.
Lina Lopes is a Portuguese teacher,trade unionist and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD),Lopes was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Lisbon constituency.
Porto 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 Porto. The constituency currently elects 40 of the 230 members of the Assembly of the Republic using the closed party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 legislative election it had 1,589,053 registered electors.
Manuel Vicente de Sousa Lima Loff is a Portuguese historian,politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic,the national legislature of Portugal. An independent affiliated with the Portuguese Communist Party,he represented Porto from March 2023 to September 2023.
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.
Isabel Cristina Fernandes Rodrigues Ferreira is a Portuguese scientist specialising in the agri-food sector,and a politician. Between 2019 and 2022 she was Secretary of State for Upgrading the Interior and between 2022 and 2024,she was Secretary of State for Regional Development. In the March 2024 national election she was elected to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic to represent the Bragança District.
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