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]