MEP Francisco Guerreiro was the one who championed the environment the most in Brussels.

According to an analysis published this Monday, MEP Francisco Guerreiro, elected by PAN but later becoming independent, was the Portuguese who came forward most in defending environmental policy in Brussels.

Francisco Guerreiro, Portugal’s only representative in the Green Group, scored 99 points out of a possible 100, Portuguese environmental groups said in a statement in which they corrected the European Parliament group to which the Left Bloc belongs, which belongs to the left group and not to the Green group.

The analysis published this Monday shows that a minority of MEPs acted within the 2019-2024 mandate to protect climate and nature and reduce pollution.

Five European environmental organizations are responsible for the analysis: BirdLife Europe, Climate Action Network Europe, European Environment Bureau, Transport and Environment and WWF European Policy Office.

Five organizations divide political forces into three groups according to climate action: defenders – those who protect the most; procrastinators who are in an intermediate position; and those least supportive of climate action are the prehistoric thinkers.

The defenders were the groups Green|European Free Alliance (92 points out of 100), Left (84 points) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (70 points).

The group of procrastinators included “Renewal of Europe” (56 points), and the group of prehistoric thinkers included the European People’s Party (25 points), “European Conservatives and Reformists” (10 points) and “Identity and Democracy” (six points out of 100 possible). . .

If we analyze the Portuguese parties, the defenders include the Bloc de Esquerda (Esquerda group), with 91 points, and the PS (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group), with 79 points.

The PKP (Left) scores 67 and looks like a procrastinator, while the SDP and CDS-PP of the European People’s Party score 27 and 20 respectively and are part of a group of prehistoric thinkers.

Analysis of the data shows that the Bloc de Esquerda and the Social Democratic Party are above the European average of their political group, that the PCP appears well below the average of their political group and that, according to prehistoric thinkers, the PSD is within the average of your group (slightly above), and CDS-PP below.

In Brussels, the PSD panel has already rejected this analysis.

The amendment to the political group to which the Bloc de Esquerda belongs, signed by the Portuguese environmental organizations Geota, Spea, Quercus and Zero (which issued the original document), also clarifies that MEP Francisco Guerreiro was not included in the barometer because the coordinators of the initiative presented information about parties, not about independent deputies.