Pedro Filipe Soares | |
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President of the Left Bloc's Parliamentary group | |
In office 6 December 2012 – 26 March 2024 | |
Preceded by | Luís Fazenda |
Succeeded by | Fabian Figueiredo |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
In office 23 October 2015 – 26 March 2024 | |
Constituency | Lisbon |
In office 27 September 2009 – 22 October 2015 | |
Constituency | Aveiro |
Personal details | |
Born | Castelo de Paiva, Portugal | 15 February 1979
Political 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]