Alice Portugal | |
Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies |
Term Start: | 1 February 2003 |
Constituency: | Bahia |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia |
Term Start1: | 1 February 1995 |
Term End1: | 1 February 2003 |
Constituency1: | At-large |
Birth Name: | Alice Mazzuco Portugal |
Birth Date: | 16 May 1959 |
Birth Place: | Salvador, Bahia, Brazil |
Party: | PCdoB (since 1978) |
Alma Mater: | Federal University of Bahia (PharmB) |
Profession: | Biochemical pharmacist |
Alice Mazzuco Portugal (born 16 May 1959) is a Brazilian biochemical pharmacist and politician.
Born in Salvador, she was active in the student movement and technical workers' unions at the Federal University of Bahia, where she graduated in pharmacy-biochemistry in 1981.[1] Portugal is affiliated to the Communist Party of Brazil since 1979; she was elected state representative of Bahia from 1995 to 2003, when she was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies, having been reelected in 2006, 2010 and 2014.
In April 2017 she voted against the labor reform.[2] In August of the same year, she voted for a corruption investigation of the then President Michel Temer.[3]