Catarina Martins
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Catarina Soares Martins (born September 7, 1973 in Porto ) is a Portuguese actress and politician of the Bloco de Esquerda , of which she became chairman of the board together with João Semedo in 2012, and of which she has been the chairman of the board since a restructuring in 2014.
Martins was active in various theaters before the Portuguese Parliament elections in 2009 for the first time for the Left Bloc in the Portuguese Parliament, the da República Assembleia moved. In the elections in 2011 she was able to win another mandate for the Porto district .
On November 11, 2012, Martins was elected, together with João Semedo, to chair the Bloco de Esquerda and thus to succeed Francisco Louçã . She has been leading the party alone since 2014.
In the parliamentary elections in Portugal in 2015 , Bloco achieved the best election result since it was founded in 1999 with 10.2 percent, thanks to chairman Martins and her group colleague Mariana Mortágua .
Web links
- Page on Assembleia da República (Portuguese)
- Presentation of Martins on the side of the Bloco de Esquerda parliamentary group (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Miguel Szymanski : Portrait - Courage and Cleopatra -. In: Der Freitag , issue 43/15. October 22, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martins, Catarina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soares Martins, Catarina (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese actress and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th September 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | postage |