Jorge Pinto Explained

Jorge Pinto
Office1:Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Constituency1:Porto
Term Start1:26 March 2024
Birth Name:Eduardo Jorge Costa Pinto
Birth Date:20 April 1987
Birth Place:Amarante, Portugal
Party:LIVRE
Residence:Brussels, Belgium
Alma Mater:University of Minho

Eduardo Jorge Costa Pinto (born 20 April 1987) is a Portuguese environmental engineer, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, he has represented Porto since March 2024.

Early life

Pinto was born on 20 April 1987 in Amarante.[1] [2] He received a master's degree in environmental engineering the University of Porto in 2010 after producing a thesis titled Rainwater Harvesting Systems Implementation Inside Karunya University Campus for the Karunya University.[1] [3] He received a doctorate in social and political philosophy from the University of Minho in 2020 after producing a thesis titled Green republicanism: non-domination for an ecologically sustainable planet.[1] [4]

Career

Pinto is an environmental engineer by profession.[1] He has worked abroad since 2008, in Lithuania, India, France, Italy and most recently in Brussels since 2012.[2] He was a research associate at the University of Minho's Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society.[5] [6]

Pinto has written a number of books and comic books.[2] The comic book Amadeo, a vida e obra entre Amarante e Paris (2018), about the life of painter Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, was written by Pinto and illustrated by Eduardo Viana.[7] Rendimento Básico Incondicional - Uma defesa da liberdade (2019), which he co-authored, won the 2019 Philosophy Essay Prize from the Portuguese Philosophy Society.[8] Tamem digo - uma história de migrações (2022), written by Pinto and illustrated by Julia da Costa, tells the story of Pinto's grandmother Maria do Carmo and other women who stayed behind during the wave migration to France under fascist rule in Portugal.[9] [10] He also wrote the plays Uma História Trágico-Marítima, which received an honourable mention in the 2017 INATEL/Teatro da Trindade awards, and Seis meses.[11]

Between the ages of 18 and 25, Pinto was a member of the Socialist Party but became disillusioned with the party's lack of commitment to progressivism, environmentalism and the European left ideals.[12] He was one of the founders of the LIVRE party and was part of the Contact Group, the party's executive body, from 2014 to 2020.[1] [2] At the 2015 legislative election Pinto was placed first on LIVRE's list of candidates in Europe but the party failed to win any seats in the constituency.[13] He was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2019 and 2022 legislative elections in Porto but on each occasion the party failed to win any seats in the constituency.[14] [15] He was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2024 legislative election.[16]

Electoral history

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1 Elected

Works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deputados: Biografia - Jorge Pinto . 27 March 2024 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  2. Web site: Jorge Pinto . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240319144551/https://partidolivre.pt/primarias-legislativas-2024/porto/jorge-pinto . 19 March 2024 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  3. Web site: Tese de Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia do Ambiente: Rainwater Harvesting Systems Implementation Inside Karunya University Campus . Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto . . 27 March 2024 . Porto, Portugal . pt.
  4. Web site: Green republicanism: non-domination for an ecologically sustainable planet . RepositóriUM . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220313043713/https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/76484 . 13 March 2022 . Braga, Portugal . pt.
  5. Web site: Team . Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230923121456/https://ceps.elach.uminho.pt/our-team/ . 23 September 2023 . Braga, Portugal.
  6. Web site: Authors: Jorge Pinto . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230130005853/https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/article-author/jorge-pinto/ . 30 January 2023 . Brussels, Belgium.
  7. News: Nuno Gomes . Garcia . Nuno Gomes Garcia conversa com Jorge Pinto: «Houve uma redescoberta da obra do Amadeo» . 27 March 2024 . Luso Jornal . 19 November 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230330152637/https://lusojornal.com/nuno-gomes-garcia-conversa-com-jorge-pinto-houve-uma-redescoberta-da-obra-do-amadeo/ . 30 March 2023 . France . pt.
  8. Web site: Jorge Pinto . Wook . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240319144552/https://www.wook.pt/autor/jorge-pinto/3844835 . 19 March 2024 . Porto, Portugal . pt.
  9. News: Tamem digo, Uma História de Migrações . 27 March 2024 . . 2 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230921232736/https://rdpinternacional.rtp.pt/entrevista/tamem-digo-uma-historia-de-migracoes . 21 September 2023 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  10. News: Teixeira . Paulo Alexandre . Jorge Pinto homenageia avó e as mulheres que ficaram para trás na emigração em novo livro . 27 March 2024 . Expresso Amarante . 24 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824192306/https://www.expressodeamarante.pt/jorge-pinto-homenageia-avo-e-as-mulheres-que-ficaram-para-tras-na-emigracao-em-novo-livro/ . 24 August 2022 . Amarante, Portugal . pt.
  11. News: Livro “Tamem Digo” de Jorge Pinto, ilustrado por Júlia da Costa, vai ser apresentado no Consulado de Paris . 27 March 2024 . Luso Jornal . 9 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230402033506/https://lusojornal.com/livro-tamem-digo-de-jorge-pinto-ilustrado-por-julia-da-costa-vai-ser-apresentado-no-consulado-de-paris/ . 2 April 2023 . France . pt.
  12. News: Coelho . Liliana . O Livre para lá de Joacine: quem são as (novas) caras do partido? . 27 March 2024 . . 20 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231121231945/https://expresso.pt/politica/2020-01-20-O-Livre-para-la-de-Joacine-quem-sao-as--novas--caras-do-partido- . 21 November 2023 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  13. Web site: Candidatos . Eleições legislativas 2015 4 outubro . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231209141628/https://www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/legislativas2015/candidatos.html . 9 December 2023 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  14. Web site: Candidatos . Eleições legislativas 2019 6 de outubro . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240127183241/https://www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/legislativas2019/candidatos.html . 27 January 2024 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  15. Web site: Candidatos . Eleições legislativas 30 de janeiro de 2022 . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116151420/https://www.eleicoes.mai.gov.pt/legislativas2022/candidatos . 16 January 2024 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.
  16. Web site: Candidatos . Eleições legislativas 10 de março de 2024 . . 27 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240311152645/https://www.legislativas2024.mai.gov.pt/candidatos . 11 March 2024 . Lisbon, Portugal . pt.

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