Pedro Filipe Soares Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Deputado Bloquista Pedro Soares esteve na iniciativa "Conversas na Biblioteca" . Left Bloc deputy Pedro Soares was in the "Conversations in the Library" initiative. 5 October 2018 . Castelo de Paiva . Portuguese.
  2. News: Pedro Filipe Soares eleito hoje líder parlamentar . Pedro Filipe Soares elected parliamentary leader today. 5 October 2018 . Diário de Notícias . Portuguese.
  3. Web site: Biografia. Biography . Assembly of the Republic . 5 October 2018 . Portuguese.