Francisco Guerreiro

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Francisco Guerreiro

Jorge Francisco Alves Vicente de Sousa Guerreiro , shortly Francisco Guerreiro (* 12. September 1984 in Santiago do Cacém , Portugal ) is a Portuguese non-party politicians , who by 2020 the party Pessoa - Natureza - Animais belonged (PAN). He won a mandate in Portugal in the 2019 European elections , and Guerreiro has been a member of the 9th European Parliament as part of the Greens / EFA group since then .

Life

education

Francisco Guerreiro was born on September 12, 1984 in Santiago do Cacém and grew up in an orphanage before he was adopted at the age of 3 and lived in Lisbon. At the age of 12 he moved with his family to Coimbra, where he studied communication sciences at the Instituto Superior de Educação after finishing school . Guerreiro then worked as a market researcher and until 2014 as a project manager for the European Commission.

Political commitment

According to party information, Guerreiro joined the small Portuguese party Pessoas - Animais - Natureza in 2012. He rose relatively quickly within the party: he has been a member of the party's political commission since 2013 and head of the party's communications since 2014.

In 2015, the PAN party entered the Portuguese Parliament for the first time with a member, André Silva . Since then, Guerreiro has worked as a research assistant for Silva, in particular accompanying and supporting him in the committees for the environment, spatial planning, decentralization, as well as local administration and housing.

In addition to his work in parliament, Guerreiro ran for the PAN several times in previous elections: Among other things, in the 2013 local elections in Coimbra, in the European elections in 2014 as third on the list, and in the parliamentary elections in 2015 as second on the national list. In 2017 he ran in the local elections of his place of residence Cascais.

In 2018, his party Guerreiro was ranked number 1 for the 2019 European elections in Portugal . With 5.08 percent, the party won a mandate in European elections for the first time, and Guerreiro moved into the European Parliament. In the election campaign, he had mainly represented classic green positions: He called for the EU to be more committed to climate change, including through its own Vice President for the topic. He also called for more commitment to a Europe-wide energy transition. In terms of migration policy, he called for a fair distribution of migrants among all EU member states.

After the election, he and his party announced on the evening of the election that they would join the group The Greens / EFA. For the group he is a member of the Committee on Budgets , the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Fisheries .

In June 2020, Guerreiro announced that he was leaving the PAN due to a disagreement. The politician cited the party's “increasing left-wing orientation” as the main reason, as well as the party's “generally increased aggressiveness”, its passivity towards China's geopolitical activities in Europe, and the party's position on military service. Guerreiro also announced that he would not give up his seat in parliament and that he would continue to belong to the Greens / EFA group.

Private

Francisco Guerreiro lives in Cascais with his wife Sandra Marques and two children. Even after entering the European Parliament, he plans to commute regularly between Brussels and Cascais. He claims to be vegan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Francisco Guerreiro é o cabeça de lista do PAN às eleições europeias. In: Observador.pt. December 13, 2018, accessed May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ A b c Isabel Tavares, Pedro Marques: Francisco Guerreiro: "Os jovens estão interests na política, not estão é interests na partidarização". In: Sapo24.pt. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Sofia Neves: Francisco Guerreiro: “Os resultados do PAN not foram uma surpresa para nós”. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Francisco Guerreiro: “Pode ser que se venha a estudar um 'efeito PAN'”. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (European Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Home | Francisco GUERREIRO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Francisco Guerreiro Eurodeputado sai do PAN por “divergências políticas” com direcção. In: Público. June 16, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ José Pedro Mozos, Rita Penela, José Pedro Mozos, Rita Penela: É já esta quarta o primeiro voo de Francisco Guerreiro, o homem do PAN que vai sair da sombra de André Silva. In: Observador.pt. May 28, 2019, Retrieved May 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Guerreiro, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerreiro, Jorge Francisco Alves Vicente de Sousa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese politician (independent), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago do Cacém , Portugal