Luís Emídio Lopes Mateus Fazenda (born in Lisbon on October 8, 1957) is a Portuguese professor and politician.
| Luís Fazenda | |
| Office: | Vice President of the Assembly of the Republic |
| Term Start: | 15 October 2009 |
| Term End: | 19 June 2011 |
| President: | Jaime Gama |
| Office1: | President of the Left Bloc's Parliamentary group |
| Term Start1: | 20 June 2011 |
| Term End1: | 6 December 2012 |
| Predecessor1: | José Manuel Pureza |
| Successor1: | Pedro Filipe Soares |
| Term Start2: | 26 October 1999 |
| Term End2: | 15 October 2009 |
| Successor2: | José Manuel Pureza |
| Office3: | Member of the Assembly of the Republic |
| Term Start3: | 26 October 1999 |
| Term End3: | 23 October 2015 |
| Constituency3: | Lisbon |
| Birth Name: | Luís Emídio Lopes Mateus Fazenda |
| Birth Date: | 8 October 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal |
| Nationality: | Portuguese |
| Party: | Left Bloc |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Professor |
He is the son of Emídio Salvador Fazenda (born in Faro on December 19, 1929) and his wife Maria de Lourdes Ortigão Peres Lopes Mateus (born in Faro on July 1, 1931). He is a second-degree great-nephew and second-degree great-great-nephew of Ramalho Ortigão, and brother of Maria da Conceição Lopes Mateus Salvador Fazenda (born in Lisbon on September 4, 1952), who is single and without children.[1]
He has been a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic for the Left Bloc since 1999 and has served as Vice-President of the Assembly since 2009.[2] [3] He was a candidate for the Presidency of the Sintra Municipal Chamber in the 2013 local elections on behalf of the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda).
He supports the decriminalization of abortion.
He married Maria do Céu da Cunha Meneses on April 16, 1977. She was born in Lisbon, Santa Maria de Belém, on July 16, 1954, daughter of Alfredo Brasil de Meneses and Júlia de Bettencourt da Cunha. They have a son and a daughter:[4]