Pedro Filipe Soares
Pedro Filipe Soares | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Pedro Filipe Soares in 2022. | |
| President of the Left Bloc's Parliamentary group | |
| In office 6 December 2012 – 26 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Luís Fazenda |
| Succeeded by | Fabian Figueiredo |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 23 October 2015 – 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| In office 27 September 2009 – 22 October 2015 | |
| Constituency | Aveiro |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 February 1979 Castelo de Paiva, Portugal |
| Political party | Left Bloc |
Pedro Filipe Gomes Soares (born 15 February 1979) is a Portuguese mathematician and politician of the Left Bloc.
Born in Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro District, he graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto, and has a master's degree in remote sensing.[1] In 2001, aged 22, he ran for a city council seat, and four years later he was second on his party's electoral list in the district for the legislative elections.[1]
In 2009, Soares became the first Left Bloc politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic by Aveiro, and was re-elected in 2011.[1] On 6 December 2012, he was voted the party's parliamentary leader.[2] In the 2015 elections, Soares was elected to the Assembly for a third time, this time by Lisbon.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Deputado Bloquista Pedro Soares esteve na iniciativa "Conversas na Biblioteca"" [Left Bloc deputy Pedro Soares was in the "Conversations in the Library" initiative] (in Portuguese). Castelo de Paiva. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Pedro Filipe Soares eleito hoje líder parlamentar" [Pedro Filipe Soares elected parliamentary leader today]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Biografia" [Biography] (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
External links
- Profile at Left Bloc parliamentary party website (in Portuguese)