Pedro Soares (politician)

Pedro Soares
Soares in 2023
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
23 October 2015 – 24 October 2019
ConstituencyBraga
In office
15 October 2009 – 19 June 2011
ConstituencyBraga
Personal details
Born
Pedro Manuel Bastos Rodrigues Soares

(1957-03-06) 6 March 1957
Peso da Régua, Portugal
Political partyLeft Bloc (since 1999)
Other political
affiliations
Popular Democratic Union (until 1999)
OccupationPolitician, university professor

Pedro Manuel Bastos Rodrigues Soares (born 6 March 1957) is a Portuguese politician who has served as a member of the Assembly of the Republic for Braga from 2009 to 2011 and from 2015 to 2019.[1]

Soares was a member of the direction of the Popular Democratic Union at the time of the founding of the Left Bloc in 1999.[2]

He currently leads the Motion E, the main internal opposition in the Left Bloc against Mariana Mortágua's leadership.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Biografia | Pedro Soares". www.parlamento.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  2. ^ "20 anos de Bloco. Onde estavam os 19 em 1999?". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 2019-02-28. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
  3. ^ Begonha, Ana Bacelar (2023-03-15). "Pedro Soares será a figura principal da moção dos críticos internos à liderança do BE". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-06-17.