Paulo Pisco
Official portrait, 2024
Assumed office Constituency Europe In office –Constituency Europe Born Paulo Alexandre de Carvalho Pisco
(1961-08-22 ) 22 August 1961 (age 63) Portugal Political party Socialist Party Spouse Fernanda Maria Valente Soares Occupation Journalist •politician
Paulo Alexandre de Carvalho Pisco (born 22 August 1961) is a Portuguese politician,who is a member of the Assembly of the Republic . He was a Member of the Portuguese Assembly in the 8th legislature for the Socialist Party (PS) which ran up to 2002. He returned to the Assembly of the Republic in the 11th Legislature in 2009 and continues to serve as a Member for the Europe constituency ,which represents the Portuguese diaspora in that geographical region. [ 1]
Within the Portuguese Assembly,Pisco sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities ,being the coordinator for the Socialist Parliamentary Group ,as well as,being a member of the European Affairs Committee .
He has been representing Portugal since 9 October 2017 in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ,sitting with the Socialists,Democrats and Greens Group . He sits on various committees,having previously been Chair and Vice-Chair for some of the committees. He currently sits on the Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People ,Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration ,as well as,the Committee on Migration,Refugees and Displaced Persons . [ 2]
Pisco is also Chair of the Portugal-Luxembourg Parliamentary Friendship Group and Vice-Chair of the Portugal-France Parliamentary Friendship Group. [ 3]
Prior to entering politics,Pisco was a journalist and studied and obtained a degree in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a postgraduate qualification in European Studies from the Universitélibre de Bruxelles .
Electoral history 2024 legislative elections In the 2024 legislative election held on 10 March 2024,Pisco was the head of the Socialist Party list with Nathalie de Oliveira (as the 2nd candidate),for the first time in this constituency,neither of the major parties (Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party ) came first,with Chega a far-right and anti-immigration party topping the ballot (seeing their vote share increase from 10% in 2022 to 30% in 2024 ): [ 4]
Party Votes % Seats Chega CH 42,975 30.06% 1 Socialist Party PS 38,063 26.62% 1 Democratic Alliance AD 33,351 23.33% 0 Left Bloc BE 6,438 4.50% 0 Liberal Initiative IL 5,719 4.00% 0 People Animals Nature PAN 5,175 3.62% 0 LIVRE L 4,091 2.86% 0 Unitary Democratic Coalition CDU 2,363 1.65% 0 National Democratic Alternative ADN 953 0.67% 0 Volt Portugal Volt 761 0.53% 0 Portuguese Workers' Communist Party PCTP 748 0.52% 0 Together for the People JPP 560 0.39% 0 We,the Citizens! NC 510 0.36% 0 New Right ND 502 0.35% 0 React,Include,Recycle RIR 452 0.32% 0 Ergue-te E 182 0.13% 0 Alternative 21 (Earth Party and Alliance ) PT-A 120 0.08% 0 Valid votes 142,963 100.00% 2 Blank votes 1,381 0.58% Rejected votes –other 94,261 39.51% Total polled 238,605 25.46% Registered electors 937,311
2022 legislative elections The Socialist Party candidates for this election was Paulo Pisco (head of the list) and luso-descendant Nathalie de Oliveira (2nd candidate). The results of the 2022 legislative election held on 30 January 2022 in the constituency were annulled by the Constitutional Court due ballot papers without copies of voter IDs being mixed with those with voter IDs at around 150 polling stations . [ 5] [ 6] Results of the re-run held on 12 and 13 March 2022,for the first time since the 1999 legislative election did only one party gain both seats: [ 7]
Party Votes % Seats Socialist Party PS 36,086 47.54% 2 Social Democratic Party PSD 16,404 21.61% 0 Chega CH 7,756 10.22% 0 People Animals Nature PAN 2,956 3.89% 0 Liberal Initiative IL 2,704 3.56% 0 Left Bloc BE 2,647 3.49% 0 LIVRE L 1,585 2.09% 0 Unitary Democratic Coalition CDU 1,409 1.86% 0 CDS –People's Party CDS–PP 1,156 1.52% 0 Earth Party PT 610 0.80% 0 Portuguese Workers' Communist Party PCTP 522 0.69% 0 Volt Portugal Volt 464 0.61% 0 React,Include,Recycle RIR 387 0.51% 0 Portuguese Labour Party PTP 377 0.50% 0 We,the Citizens! NC 296 0.39% 0 National Democratic Alternative ADN 262 0.35% 0 Socialist Alternative Movement MAS 123 0.16% 0 Alliance A 84 0.11% 0 Ergue-te E 78 0.10% 0 Valid votes 75,906 100.00% 2 Blank votes 711 0.65% Rejected votes –other 33,565 30.46% Total polled 110,182 11.90% Registered electors 926,205
2019 legislative elections The Socialist Party candidates for this election was Paulo Pisco (head of the list) and luso-descendant Nathalie de Oliveira (2nd candidate). Results of the 2019 legislative election held on 6 October 2019: [ 8]
Party Votes % Seats Socialist Party PS 31,377 39.47% 1 Social Democratic Party PSD 20,256 25.48% 1 Left Bloc BE 6,106 7.68% 0 People Animals Nature PAN 5,296 6.66% 0 CDS –People's Party CDS–PP 3,180 4.00% 0 Unitary Democratic Coalition CDU 2,713 3.41% 0 Portuguese Workers' Communist Party PCTP 1,267 1.59% 0 LIVRE L 1,167 1.47% 0 Earth Party PT 1,012 1.27% 0 Liberal Initiative IL 874 1.10% 0 Chega CH 833 1.05% 0 National Renewal Party PNR 810 1.02% 0 Democratic Republican Party PDR 797 1.00% 0 We,the Citizens! NC 688 0.87% 0 United Party of Retirees and Pensioners PURP 672 0.85% 0 Alliance A 558 0.70% 0 React,Include,Recycle RIR 553 0.70% 0 Portuguese Labour Party PTP 493 0.62% 0 Together for the People JPP 409 0.51% 0 People's Monarchist Party PPM 254 0.32% 0 Socialist Alternative Movement MAS 173 0.22% 0 Valid votes 79,488 100.00% 2 Blank votes 1,665 1.54% Rejected votes –other 27,293 25.17% Total polled 108,446 12.11% Registered electors 895,509
2009 legislative elections Pisco becomes the Socialist Party lead candidate for this constituency,with Maria de Lurdes Galvão Rodrigues being the 2nd candidate. Results of the 2009 legislative election held on 27 September 2009: [ 11]
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