Pedro Filipe Soares | |
Office1: | President of the Left Bloc's Parliamentary group |
Preceded1: | Luís Fazenda |
Successor1: | Fabian Figueiredo |
Termstart1: | 6 December 2012 |
Termend1: | 26 March 2024 |
Office2: | Member of the Assembly of the Republic |
Termstart2: | 23 October 2015 |
Termend2: | 26 March 2024 |
Constituency2: | Lisbon |
Termstart3: | 27 September 2009 |
Termend3: | 22 October 2015 |
Constituency3: | Aveiro |
Birth Date: | 15 February 1979 |
Birth Place: | Castelo de Paiva, Portugal |
Party: | Left Bloc |
Pedro Filipe Gomes Soares (born 15 February 1979) is a Portuguese mathematician and politician of the Left Bloc.
Born in Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro District, he graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto, and has a master's degree in remote sensing.[1] In 2001, aged 22, he ran for a city council seat, and four years later he was second on his party's electoral list in the district for the legislative elections.[1]
In 2009, Soares became the first Left Bloc politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic by Aveiro, and was re-elected in 2011.[1] On 6 December 2012, he was voted the party's parliamentary leader.[2] In the 2015 elections, Soares was elected to the Assembly for a third time, this time by Lisbon.[3]