Fabian Figueiredo | |
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![]() Figueiredo in 2024 | |
President of the Parliamentary Group of the Left Bloc | |
Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
Preceded by | Pedro Filipe Soares |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
Constituency | Lisbon |
In office 26 April 2021 – June 2021 | |
Constituency | Lisbon |
Personal details | |
Born | Fabian Filipe Figueiredo 14 January 1989 |
Political party | Left Bloc |
Occupation | Politician, sociologist |
Fabian Filipe Figueiredo (born 14 January 1989) is a Portuguese politician and Sociologist from the Left Bloc. He has served for a short period as a member of the Assembly of the Republic, from April to June 2021. [1] He was elected in the 2024 legislative election as a deputy from Lisbon. [2]
Fabian Figueiredo studied Sociology in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. [3]
In 2017, he was the Left Bloc's candidate for Mayor of Loures, running, among others, against André Ventura, at the time the candidate from the PSD. [4] He filled a crime complaint against Ventura after his controversial remarks about the Romani people. [5] In 2021 he was once again a candidate for Mayor, failing once again to be elected. [6]
In 2019, he was the 7th candidate on the BE's list from Lisbon. He later became a member of the Assembly of the Republic, replacing Pedro Filipe Soares temporarily. [7]
In 2024, he was chosen as the 2nd candidate on the BE's list from Lisbon, only after party coordinator Mariana Mortágua, being elected to the Portuguese Parliament. [2] After the election, he was chosen by the Left Bloc's political commission as the parliamentary leader of the Left Bloc, succeeding Pedro Filipe Soares, who retired from politics. [8]
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