Pedro Filipe Soares
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 the Aveiro District, 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 the Lisbon District.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Deputado Bloquista Pedro Soares esteve na iniciativa "Conversas na Biblioteca"" [Left Bloc deputy Pedro Soares was in the "Conversations in the Library" initiative] (in Portuguese). Castelo de Paiva. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Pedro Filipe Soares eleito hoje líder parlamentar" [Pedro Filipe Soares elected parliamentary leader today]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "Biografia" [Biography] (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
External links
- Profile at Left Bloc parliamentary party website Template:Pt