Isabel Mendes Lopes
Isabel Mendes Lopes | |
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| File:Reunião com Livre, Lisboa, Mar.2024 (53603901675).jpg Lopes in March 2024 | |
| President of the LIVRE parliamentary group | |
| Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Position created |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Isabel Rendeiro Marques Mendes Lopes 28 February 1982 United Kingdom |
| Party | LIVRE |
| Alma mater | Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Occupation | Civil engineer |
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Isabel Rendeiro Marques Mendes Lopes (born 28 February 1982) is a Portuguese civil engineer, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, she has represented Lisbon since March 2024.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Lopes was born on 28 February 1982 in the United Kingdom.[1] She moved to Portugal at the age of two and lives in Lisbon.[2][3] She has a degree in civil engineering (2005) from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).[4] She also has a master's degree (2008) in mobility and transport from IST.[1][5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Lopes is a civil engineer by profession, specialising in transport and planning.[1][6] She worked for Infraestruturas de Portugal until 2022.[5] She has been a storyteller of children's books since 2018 and has also done theatrical work.[2]
Interested in building a more just and dignified society and strengthening democracy, Lopes was involved with the Congresso Democrático das Alternativas (Democratic Congress of Alternatives) and similar organisations.[7] She has been a member of the LIVRE party since its foundation in 2013 and was part of the Contact Group, the party's executive body, from 2015 to 2022.[4][8] She was a political advisor to LIVRE's parliamentary office from 2022 to 2024.[3][4] She has been a member of Lisbon City Council since 2021.[3][5] At the 2022 legislative election Lopes was placed second on LIVRE's list of candidates in Lisbon but the party only won a single seat in the constituency.[9] She was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2024 legislative election.[10] After the election the party's parliamentary group unanimously chose Lopes to be its leader.[2][4]
Electoral history
[edit | edit source]| Election | Constituency | Party | Alliance | No. | Result | ||
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| 2021 local[11] | Lisbon Municipal Assembly | LIVRE | More Lisbon | 8 | Elected | ||
| 2022 legislative[9] | Lisbon | LIVRE | 2 | Not elected | |||
| 2024 legislative[10] | Lisbon | LIVRE | 2 | Elected | |||
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- 1982 births
- Instituto Superior Técnico alumni
- Living people
- LIVRE politicians
- Local politicians in Portugal
- Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 17th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Politicians from Lisbon
- Portuguese civil engineers
- Portuguese women engineers
- Storytellers
- Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)