BE coordinator Mariana Mortagua will again lead the Lisbon party list in the early legislative elections, followed by Fabian Figueiredo and Jorge Costa, who returns after not standing as a candidate in the last elections.
These names appear in the proposal approved this evening at the plenary of the Lisbon district, to which the Luz agency had access, which will now go to the National Council of BE, which has the right to determine the first fifth of candidates in circles with more than three deputies.
Mariana Mortagua, who led the party this year, will top the list of blockers in Lisbon for the fourth time in a row, the first time was in the 2015 legislative elections, and will be repeated later in 2019, as well as in early 2022. elections.
The 37-year-old economist and BE coordinator first took on the role of deputy in 2013, midway through the legislature, replacing Ana Drago, a decision that was then criticized by an activist group as Mariana Mortagua was in 14th place. on the list, but justified by the leadership, based on knowledge in the field of economics, the need to create a parliamentary group.
Second on the list approved this evening is Fabian Figueiredo, who will take the seat left by BE parliamentary leader Pedro Filipe Soares, who announced earlier this week that he would not re-contest as an MP, leaving parliament at the end of this legislature.
Fabian Figueiredo already replaced Pedro Filipe Soares as lawmaker in 2021 when he took paternity leave, marking the half-year debut of the 34-year-old bloc leader, a pollster who once headed the party list in the House of Representatives. from Loures.
One of the new features is the return of leader Jorge Costa as number three on the list of BE candidates for the Assembly of the Republic in the Lisbon constituency.
The 48-year-old journalist left the lists that BE presented for the upcoming legislative elections in January 2022, then explaining that after six years as an MP, he proposed to the BE leadership to leave the lists so that he could devote himself to “party organization.”
The list also includes Anabela Rodrigues, who was already on the party’s list for the 2019 European elections, and leader Leonor Rosas, who at 24 is again in fifth place in Lisbon.
Dr Afonso Moreira, researcher Raquel Lindner, actress and director Carolina Serran, factory worker Alexandre Cafe and Dr Tania Russo round out the top ten of the 22 names confirmed this evening.
In the 2022 early elections, called after the dissolution of the Assembly of the Republic following the failure of the state budget for 2022, including due to the bloc voting against, the party showed its worst result in the last 20 years: only five deputies, 4.40. % (244,596 votes) and the fifth political force in terms of percentage of votes (if you count in deputies, they even become the sixth party).
In these elections, BE managed to elect only two deputies from the Lisbon district: Mariana Mortagua and Pedro Filipe Soares.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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