Lina Lopes
Lina Lopes | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 25 October 2019 – 25 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes 28 May 1961 Setúbal, Portugal |
| Political party | Chega (2024–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Social Democratic Party (until 2024) |
| Spouse | Manuel José Simóes Loureiro |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon |
Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes (born 28 May 1961) is a Portuguese teacher, trade unionist and politician. A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), Lopes was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Lisbon constituency.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes was born in Setúbal, Portugal on 28 May 1961. Her father was a businessman who had been held at gunpoint following Portugal's Carnation Revolution in 1974, when the Estado Novo dictatorship had been overthrown. She has said that witnessing that conditioned her subsequent political views.[1][2]
Lopes obtained a degree in chemistry at the science faculty of the University of Lisbon in 1988. Later studies included a postgraduate course in public health at the Universidade Lusófona, a master's in food engineering in 2002 from the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon and a diploma in information systems from the Complutense University of Madrid.[1]
Career
[edit]Lopes became a teacher, first at schools and later at the faculty of engineering at the Universidade Lusófona. She joined the Sindicato Nacional e Democrático dos Professores (SINDEP), a teachers' union, and became its deputy secretary-general. SINDEP is affiliated to the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Lopes became a member of the UGT executive and president of its women's committee. She was also appointed as a member of the Comissão para a Igualdade no Trabalho e no Emprego (Committee for Equality in Work and Employment), a body consisting of government ministries and trade unions. She also served on the women's committee of the European Trade Union Confederation.[1][2][3]
Political career
[edit]Lopes was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) for the Lisbon constituency in the 2019 national election. In February 2021 she was appointed as the representative to the Assembly of the international organization, Women Political Leaders (WPL). WPL is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the participation and influence of women in positions of political leadership. In her first term of office as a parliamentarian, Lopes sat on the national defence committee of the Assembly. She was re-elected in the January 2022 national election, being sixth on the list of 13 PSD members to be elected for the Lisbon constituency.[1][3][4][5][6] However, for the 2024 national election, in which the PSD formed a coalition with two smaller parties to form the Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition, she was only included on the AD list for Lisbon in last place, and was not elected. After the election, in which the right-wing CHEGA party performed better than in previous elections, she was appointed to the office of the CHEGA vice-president of Parliament, Diogo Pacheco de Amorim.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes". Assembleia de República. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes". OS230. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Lina Maria Cardoso Lopes". Assembleia de República - Registo de Interesses. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Lina Lopes nomeada Embaixadora Representante da Women Political Leaders do Parlamento Português". PSD. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "O perfil dos deputados eleitos para a Assembleia da República". Renascença. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Conheça os nomes dos deputados eleitos pelo seu distrito: a lista completa". CNN. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Antiga deputada do PSD Lina Lopes quer defender-se de perda de confiança dos Trabalhadores Social Democratas". Observador. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Ex-deputada do PSD próxima de Rio integra gabinete de vice do Chega". Observador. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- 1961 births
- Living people
- Members of the 14th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 15th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- People from Setúbal
- Portuguese trade unionists
- Social Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians
- University of Lisbon alumni
- Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)