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{{Short description|Portuguese economist and politician}} |
{{Short description|Portuguese economist and politician (born 1986)}} |
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{{Portuguese name|Rodrigues|Mortágua}} |
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| name = Mariana Mortágua |
| name = Mariana Mortágua |
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| image = Mariana Mortágua, |
| image = Mariana Mortágua, legislativas 2024 (53527512817) (cropped).jpg |
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| caption = Mortágua in |
| caption = Mortágua in 2023 |
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| office = [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|National Coordinator of the Left Bloc]] |
| office = [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|National Coordinator of the Left Bloc]] |
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| term_start = 28 May 2023 |
| term_start = 28 May 2023 |
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| predecessor = [[Catarina Martins]] |
| predecessor = [[Catarina Martins]] |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|6|24|df=y}} |
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|6|24|df=y}} |
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| birth_place = [[Alvito, Portugal|Alvito]], [[Portugal]] |
| birth_place = [[Alvito, Portugal|Alvito]], [[Beja District|Beja]], [[Portugal]] |
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| party = [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|Left Bloc]] |
| party = [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|Left Bloc]] |
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| spouse = |
| spouse = {{marriage|Joana Pires Teixeira|2024}} |
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| occupation = Politician, economist |
| occupation = Politician, economist |
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| website = |
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| office3 = {{MP PT}} |
| office3 = {{MP PT}} |
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| term_start3 = 31 August 2013 |
| term_start3 = 31 August 2013 |
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| constituency3 = [[Lisbon |
| constituency3 = [[Lisbon (Assembly of the Republic constituency)|Lisbon]] |
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| relatives = [[Joana Mortágua]] (twin sister)<br>[[Maria João Rodrigues]] (cousin) |
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| birth_name = Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua |
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'''Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua''' (born 24 June 1986 |
'''Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua''' (born 24 June 1986) is a Portuguese economist and politician who is the National Coordinator of the [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|Left Bloc]], serving since 28 May 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=4557|title=Biografia|publisher=[[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)]]|accessdate=15 November 2015|language=pt}}</ref> In 2013, she was elected to the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic of Portugal]], replacing [[Ana Drago]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sol.pt/noticia/391585/mariana-mort%C3%A1gua--uma-estrela-da-rede|title=Mariana Mortágua: Uma estrela da rede|last=Rego|first=Ricardo|date=12 May 2015|work=[[Sol (newspaper)|Sol]]|accessdate=15 November 2015|language=pt}}</ref> |
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== Early life == |
== Early life == |
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Mortágua is the daughter |
Mortágua is the daughter of Camilo Mortágua, an anti-[[António de Oliveira Salazar|Salazar]] activist, revolutionary, and founding member of [[:pt:Liga de Unidade e Ação Revolucionária|LUAR]]. She is the twin sister of [[Joana Mortágua]], also MP of the Left Bloc, and distant cousin of [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist]] politician [[Maria João Rodrigues]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Batista |first=São José Almeida, Enric Vives-Rubio, Frederico |title=A política é a casa deles |url=https://www.publico.pt/2015/04/19/politica/noticia/a-politica-e-a-casa-deles-1692570 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}</ref> |
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She holds a degree and a master's degree in [[Economics]] from [[ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon|ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa]], having completed her PhD in economics at the [[SOAS University of London|School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) at the [[University of London]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biografia |url=https://www.parlamento.pt:443/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=4557 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.parlamento.pt |language=pt-PT}}</ref> |
She holds a degree and a master's degree in [[Economics]] from [[ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon|ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa]], having completed her PhD in economics at the [[SOAS University of London|School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS) at the [[University of London]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biografia |url=https://www.parlamento.pt:443/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=4557 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.parlamento.pt |language=pt-PT}}</ref> |
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She made her debut as a deputy in the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]] at the age of 27, in 2013, due to the need to replace [[Ana Drago]] in the [[Lisbon |
She made her debut as a deputy in the [[Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)|Assembly of the Republic]] at the age of 27, in 2013, due to the need to replace [[Ana Drago]] in the [[Lisbon (Assembly of the Republic constituency)|Lisbon constituency]], where she was elected. Her appointment in September 2013 to the top positions on the list of candidates for deputies by the Political Commission of the [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|BE]] was contested by a group of militants, who criticized the "technocratic criteria" that guided her choice. In view of this, the BE confirmed that Mariana Mortágua was considered as the element that “would best serve the interests of the party in the Assembly of the Republic, due to her knowledge in the area of the Economy”, something that had “been felt since the departure of [[Francisco Louçã]]”.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lusa |title=Cerca de 100 elementos do BE questionam escolha de deputada |url=https://www.publico.pt/2013/08/26/politica/noticia/cerca-de-100-elementos-do-be-questionam-escolha-de-deputada-1604039 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=PÚBLICO |language=pt}}</ref> |
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She later gained particular visibility in Portuguese politics after her performance in the parliamentary inquiry of [[Zeinal Bava]] and [[Ricardo Salgado]], in the context of the bankruptcy of the [[:pt:Banco Espírito Santo|BES bank]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=TVI |url=https://tvi.iol.pt/noticiasvideos/salgado-nao-consegue-responder-as-perguntas-interessantes-de-mariana-mortagua/550b43100cf23ee254440d1e/91 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=tvi.iol.pt |language=pt}}</ref> |
She later gained particular visibility in Portuguese politics after her performance in the parliamentary inquiry of [[Zeinal Bava]] and [[Ricardo Salgado]], in the context of the bankruptcy of the [[:pt:Banco Espírito Santo|BES bank]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=TVI |url=https://tvi.iol.pt/noticiasvideos/salgado-nao-consegue-responder-as-perguntas-interessantes-de-mariana-mortagua/550b43100cf23ee254440d1e/91 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=tvi.iol.pt |language=pt}}</ref> |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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In April 2023, she claimed on [[SIC Notícias]] she was being politically targeted through lawsuits filed by Marco Galinha, chairman of the [[Global Media Group]], and [[Chega (political party)|Chega]], a right-wing populist political party in Portugal, and noted "I know that this type of pressure and political persecution will continue and will even rise in tone and level, whether because I am a woman, because I am on the left, whether because I am a lesbian woman, whether because I am the daughter of an anti-fascist resistance fighter, or because apparently I have the gift of bothering some people with a lot of power".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mariana Mortágua acusa Chega de perseguição por ser mulher de esquerda e homossexual |url=https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2023-04-25-Mariana-Mortagua-acusa-Chega-de-perseguicao-por-ser-mulher-de-esquerda-e-homossexual-aceb81e5 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=SIC Notícias |language=pt}}</ref> |
In April 2023, she claimed on [[SIC Notícias]] she was being politically targeted through lawsuits filed by Marco Galinha, chairman of the [[Global Media Group]], and [[Chega (political party)|Chega]], a right-wing populist political party in Portugal, and noted "I know that this type of pressure and political persecution will continue and will even rise in tone and level, whether because I am a woman, because I am on the left, whether because I am a lesbian woman, whether because I am the daughter of an anti-fascist resistance fighter, or because apparently I have the gift of bothering some people with a lot of power".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mariana Mortágua acusa Chega de perseguição por ser mulher de esquerda e homossexual |url=https://sicnoticias.pt/pais/2023-04-25-Mariana-Mortagua-acusa-Chega-de-perseguicao-por-ser-mulher-de-esquerda-e-homossexual-aceb81e5 |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=SIC Notícias |language=pt}}</ref> |
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==Electoral history== |
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===BE leadership election, 2023=== |
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{{election table|title=Ballot: 28 May 2023}} |
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! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate |
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! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes |
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|bgcolor={{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}| |
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| align=left | '''Mariana Mortágua''' |
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| align=right | 439 |
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| align=right | 83.1 |
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|bgcolor={{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}}| |
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| align=left | {{ill|Pedro Manuel Bastos Rodrigues Soares|lt=Pedro Soares|pt|Pedro Soares (político)}} |
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| align=right | 78 |
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| align=right | 14.8 |
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| colspan=2 align=left | Abstentions |
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| align=right | 11 |
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| align=right | 2.1 |
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| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | '''Turnout''' |
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| align=right | '''528''' |
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| align=right | '''80.74''' |
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| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/bloco-de-esquerda/mariana-mortagua/e-oficial-mariana-mortagua-e-a-nova-coordenadora-do-bloco-de-esquerda |title=439 votos entre 654 delegados: é oficial, Mariana Mortágua sucede a Catarina Martins |work=CNN Portugal |date=28 May 2023 |access-date=9 August 2024}}</ref> |
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===Legislative election, 2024=== |
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{{Main|2024 Portuguese legislative election}} |
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{{election table|title=Ballot: 10 March 2024}} |
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! colspan="2" | Party |
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! Candidate |
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! Votes |
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! align="center" style="width: 50px"|% |
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! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats |
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| style="background:{{party color|Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024)}};"| |
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| align="left"|[[Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024)|AD]] |
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| align=left |[[Luís Montenegro]] || 1,867,442 || 28.8 || '''80''' || style="color:green;"| +3 |
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| style="background:{{party color|Socialist Party (Portugal)}};"| |
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| align="left"|[[Socialist Party (Portugal)|PS]] |
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| align=left |[[Pedro Nuno Santos]] || 1,812,443 || 28.0 || '''78''' || style="color:red;"| –42 |
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| align="left"| [[Chega (political party)|Chega]] |
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| align=left |[[André Ventura]] || 1,169,781 || 18.1 || '''50''' || style="color:green;"| +38 |
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| style="background:{{party color|Liberal Initiative}};"| |
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| align="left"| [[Liberal Initiative|IL]] |
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| align=left |[[Rui Rocha]] || 319,877 || 4.9 || '''8''' || ±0 |
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| style="background:{{party color|Left Bloc (Portugal)}};"| |
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| align="left"| [[Left Bloc (Portugal)|BE]] |
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| align=left |'''Mariana Mortágua''' || 282,314 || 4.4 || '''5''' || ±0 |
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| style="background:{{party color|Unitary Democratic Coalition}};"| |
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| align="left"| [[Unitary Democratic Coalition|CDU]] |
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| align=left |[[Paulo Raimundo]] || 205,551 || 3.2 || '''4''' || style="color:red;"| –2 |
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| align="left"| [[LIVRE|Livre]] |
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| align=left |[[Rui Tavares]] || 204,875 || 3.2 || '''4''' || style="color:green;"| +3 |
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| align="left"| [[People-Animals-Nature|PAN]] |
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| align=left |[[Inês Sousa Real]] || 126,125 || 2.0 || '''1''' || ±0 |
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| align="left"| [[National Democratic Alternative (Portugal)|ADN]] |
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| align=left |[[Bruno Fialho]] || 102,134 || 1.6 || '''0''' || ±0 |
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| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties |
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| 104,167 || 1.6 || '''0''' || ±0 |
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| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots |
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| 282,243 || 4.4 || – || – |
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|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |
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| colspan="3" align="left"| '''Turnout''' |
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| '''6,476,952''' || '''59.90''' || '''230''' || '''±0''' |
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| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cne.pt/sites/default/files/dl/2024_ar_mapa_oficial_dr.pdf |title=Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 2-A/2024 |work=Comissão Nacional de Eleições |date=23 March 2024 |access-date=23 March 2024}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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Latest revision as of 23:22, 23 September 2024
Mariana Mortágua | |
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National Coordinator of the Left Bloc | |
Assumed office 28 May 2023 | |
Preceded by | Catarina Martins |
Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
Assumed office 31 August 2013 | |
Constituency | Lisbon |
Personal details | |
Born | Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua 24 June 1986 Alvito, Beja, Portugal |
Political party | Left Bloc |
Spouse |
Joana Pires Teixeira
(m. 2024) |
Relatives | Joana Mortágua (twin sister) Maria João Rodrigues (cousin) |
Occupation | Politician, economist |
Mariana Rodrigues Mortágua (born 24 June 1986) is a Portuguese economist and politician who is the National Coordinator of the Left Bloc, serving since 28 May 2023.[1] In 2013, she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal, replacing Ana Drago.[2]
Early life
[edit]Mortágua is the daughter of Camilo Mortágua, an anti-Salazar activist, revolutionary, and founding member of LUAR. She is the twin sister of Joana Mortágua, also MP of the Left Bloc, and distant cousin of Socialist politician Maria João Rodrigues.[3]
She holds a degree and a master's degree in Economics from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, having completed her PhD in economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.[4]
She made her debut as a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic at the age of 27, in 2013, due to the need to replace Ana Drago in the Lisbon constituency, where she was elected. Her appointment in September 2013 to the top positions on the list of candidates for deputies by the Political Commission of the BE was contested by a group of militants, who criticized the "technocratic criteria" that guided her choice. In view of this, the BE confirmed that Mariana Mortágua was considered as the element that “would best serve the interests of the party in the Assembly of the Republic, due to her knowledge in the area of the Economy”, something that had “been felt since the departure of Francisco Louçã”.[5]
She later gained particular visibility in Portuguese politics after her performance in the parliamentary inquiry of Zeinal Bava and Ricardo Salgado, in the context of the bankruptcy of the BES bank.[6]
She was re-elected as a deputy in the 2015 legislative elections, which gave the Bloco de Esquerda its highest vote ever. She was a member of the Economy and Public Works Commission, the Budget, Finance and Public Administration Commission and the Eventual Commission for Monitoring the Measures of the Financial Assistance Program for Portugal. She was re-elected as a deputy in October 2019.[7]
In September 2016, she stated that, "from a practical point of view, the first thing we have to do is lose the shame of looking for someone who is accumulating money" and that "we cannot be ashamed of having a social policy of this kind."[8]
She was again reelected in 2022, despite the poor results of the Left Bloc. After Catarina Martins decided not to run again in the upcoming Congress, Mariana Mortágua announced her candidacy to the leadership of the party, receiving wide support from party members.[9][10] On 28 May, Mariana Mortágua was elected Left Bloc's new coordinator, with the support of 493 out of 528 delegates for her motion, and 490 out of 600 delegates for her list for the BE's national board on party's convention in Lisbon.
Political views
[edit]Mortágua is interested in various humanitarian causes, especially women's rights and LGBT rights. She awakened to the cause of feminism in her youth, when she was part of the Young Association for Justice and Peace (AJP), led by feminist Teresa Cunha.
Mortágua regularly participates in LGBT pride marches. However, she stated in an interview "today the gay parades are no longer political marches, they are publicity marches", contrary to when they were a "cause against capitalism".[11][12]
Personal life
[edit]In April 2023, she claimed on SIC Notícias she was being politically targeted through lawsuits filed by Marco Galinha, chairman of the Global Media Group, and Chega, a right-wing populist political party in Portugal, and noted "I know that this type of pressure and political persecution will continue and will even rise in tone and level, whether because I am a woman, because I am on the left, whether because I am a lesbian woman, whether because I am the daughter of an anti-fascist resistance fighter, or because apparently I have the gift of bothering some people with a lot of power".[13]
Electoral history
[edit]BE leadership election, 2023
[edit]Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Mariana Mortágua | 439 | 83.1 | |
Pedro Soares | 78 | 14.8 | |
Abstentions | 11 | 2.1 | |
Turnout | 528 | 80.74 | |
Source: Results[14] |
Legislative election, 2024
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | |
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AD | Luís Montenegro | 1,867,442 | 28.8 | 80 | +3 | |
PS | Pedro Nuno Santos | 1,812,443 | 28.0 | 78 | –42 | |
Chega | André Ventura | 1,169,781 | 18.1 | 50 | +38 | |
IL | Rui Rocha | 319,877 | 4.9 | 8 | ±0 | |
BE | Mariana Mortágua | 282,314 | 4.4 | 5 | ±0 | |
CDU | Paulo Raimundo | 205,551 | 3.2 | 4 | –2 | |
Livre | Rui Tavares | 204,875 | 3.2 | 4 | +3 | |
PAN | Inês Sousa Real | 126,125 | 2.0 | 1 | ±0 | |
ADN | Bruno Fialho | 102,134 | 1.6 | 0 | ±0 | |
Other parties | 104,167 | 1.6 | 0 | ±0 | ||
Blank/Invalid ballots | 282,243 | 4.4 | – | – | ||
Turnout | 6,476,952 | 59.90 | 230 | ±0 | ||
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[15] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Biografia" (in Portuguese). Assembly of the Republic (Portugal). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ Rego, Ricardo (12 May 2015). "Mariana Mortágua: Uma estrela da rede". Sol (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ Batista, São José Almeida, Enric Vives-Rubio, Frederico. "A política é a casa deles". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Biografia". www.parlamento.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ Lusa. "Cerca de 100 elementos do BE questionam escolha de deputada". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "TVI". tvi.iol.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Bloco de Esquerda com o seu melhor resultado de sempre". www.jornaldenegocios.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ Sapage, Sónia. "Mariana Mortágua: a frase da polémica, os críticos, os defensores e a explicação". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Mariana Mortágua anuncia candidatura a líder do BE esta segunda-feira". Expresso (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Mariana Mortágua avança para a liderança do BE". TSF Rádio Notícias (in European Portuguese). 14 February 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Mariana Mortágua fala sobre feminismo, sexismo e homofobia". dezanove.pt. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "As fotos e as surpresas da 16ª Marcha do Orgulho LGBT de Lisboa". dezanove.pt. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "Mariana Mortágua acusa Chega de perseguição por ser mulher de esquerda e homossexual". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 April 2023.
- ^ "439 votos entre 654 delegados: é oficial, Mariana Mortágua sucede a Catarina Martins". CNN Portugal. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Comissão Nacional de Eleições Mapa Oficial n.º 2-A/2024" (PDF). Comissão Nacional de Eleições. 23 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- 1986 births
- Left Bloc politicians
- Lesbian politicians
- Living people
- Members of the 12th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 13th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 14th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 15th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
- People from Alvito, Portugal
- Portuguese lesbians
- Portuguese LGBTQ politicians
- Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)