Beatriz Porée Explained

Honorific Prefix:Deputy
Beatriz Porée
Office1:Deputy of St Helier South
Term Start1:27 June 2022
Subterm1:Serving with
Majority1:88
Birth Place:Angola
Residence:St Helier, Jersey
Party:Reform Jersey
Known For:Being the first person of colour to serve as a member of the States Assembly

Beatriz Borges de Sousa Vaz Moreno Porée is a Jersey politician who has served as Deputy for St Helier South since 2022.

Porée was born in Angola, but was raised in Portugal after becoming a child refugee in the Angolan Civil War.[1] She moved to Jersey in the late 1980s and founded a juice bar business in the Central Market.[2] Porée successfully ran for election in the 2022 general election as a Reform Jersey candidate in St Helier South, becoming the first person of colour and second person of Portuguese descent to be elected to the States Assembly.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Porée . Beatriz . Beatriz Porée . vote.je . States Greffe . 19 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240412140248/https://www.vote.je/candidates/2022/beatriz-poree/ . 12 April 2024 . live.
  2. News: Juice bar founder striving for greater equality as election candidate . 19 July 2024 . Bailiwick Express . 10 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220622222504/https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/juice-bar-founder-striving-greater-equality-election-candidate/ . 22 June 2022 . live.
  3. News: Jersey makes history with first Deputy of colour . 19 July 2024 . Bailiwick Express . 23 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326215439/https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/jersey-makes-history-first-deputy-colour/ . 26 March 2023 . live.