Isabel Pires
Isabel Pires | |
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| File:Isabel Pires (53595370923) (cropped).jpg Pires in January 2024 | |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 14 September 2023 – 25 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Catarina Martins |
| Constituency | Porto |
| In office 23 October 2015 – 28 March 2022 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Isabel Cristina Rua Pires 21 June 1990 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal |
| Party | Left Bloc |
| Alma mater | NOVA University Lisbon |
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Isabel Cristina Rua Pires (born 21 June 1990) 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.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Pires was born on 21 June 1990 in Vila Nova de Gaia.[1][2] She lived in Gaia until she was 19 when she moved to Lisbon to study.[2][3] She has a degree in political science and international relations from NOVA University Lisbon (she had started her studies in language, literature and culture before switching subjects).[2][3] She was a student activist, organinsing general strikes and demonstrations.[3][4] She received a master's degree in political science from NOVA in 2021 after producing a thesis titled Evolução do Nacionalismo Catalão: fatores institucionais e políticos, consequências e resultados.[1][5]
Career
[edit | edit source]Pires worked in call centres.[1][3]
Pires has been a member of the Left Bloc (BE) since 2008.[2][3] She is a member of BE's political committee.[6] She has been a member of Lisbon City Council since 2013.[3][4] She was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2015 legislative election.[7] She was re-elected at the 2019 legislative election.[8] At the 2022 legislative election Pires was placed third on BE's list of candidates in Porto but the party only won two seats in the constituency.[9] She was a temporary member of the Assembly of the Republic from February 2023 to August 2023, substituting for José Moura Soeiro.[10][11][12] She was appointed to the Assembly as permanent member in September 2023 following the resignation of Catarina Martins.[13][14] At the 2024 legislative election she was placed third on BE's list of candidates in Porto but the party again only won two seats in the constituency.[15]
Electoral history
[edit | edit source]| Election | Constituency | Party | No. | Result | |
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| 2015 legislative[7] | Lisbon | Left Bloc | 4 | Elected | |
| 2017 local[16] | Lisbon Municipal Assembly | Left Bloc | 1 | Elected | |
| 2019 legislative[8] | Lisbon | Left Bloc | 5 | Elected | |
| 2021 local[17] | Lisbon Municipal Assembly | Left Bloc | 1 | Elected | |
| 2022 legislative[9] | Porto | Left Bloc | 3 | Not elected | |
| 2024 legislative[15] | Porto | Left Bloc | 3 | Not elected | |
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- 1990 births
- Left Bloc politicians
- Living people
- Local politicians in Portugal
- Members of the 13th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 14th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 15th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- NOVA University Lisbon alumni
- Politicians from Lisbon
- Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)