José Gusmão

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José Gusmão (2019)

José Guilherme Figueiredo Nobre de Gusmão , short José Gusmão (born July 20, 1976 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese economist and politician ( Bloco de Esquerda ). From 2009 to 2011 Gusmão was a member of the Portuguese Parliament . Since the European elections in 2019 he has been a member of the European Parliament as part of the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left .

Life

education

José Gusmão was born on July 20, 1976 in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. After completing his school education, he first studied economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) in Lisbon , then economic sociology. During that time Gusmão was also a member of the student council. Subsequently, worked at the Portuguese Economic Research Center (affiliated to the ISEG) and at the research center for socio-economic change Dinâmia.

Political commitment

Gusmão has been involved in various left organizations and movements in Portugal for many years, including Attac Portugal, the Portuguese Social Forum, the Forum Manifesto, the Citizens' Debt Review Initiative (Iniciativa para uma Auditoria Cidadã à Dívida) and the Democratic Party Congress of Alternatives.

Political career

Gusmão speaking in the European Parliament (2020)

Gusmão was involved in party politics for a longer period of time with the Portuguese Communists before he later switched to the Bloco de Esquerda party, which was founded in the 1990s . In the meantime, Gusmão was a member of the Political Commission of the Bloco de Esquerda.

In the course of the parliamentary elections in 2009 , he won a mandate for the XI for the Bloco des Esquerda in the constituency of Santarém. Portuguese Parliament. In the legislature, which ended in 2011 due to the resignation of Prime Minister Sócrates, Gusmão held the deputy chairmanship of the Parliament's Finance Committee.

After the Bloco de Esquerda suffered heavy losses in the 2011 parliamentary elections , and Gusmão did not win a mandate, he moved to Brussels to work there until 2018 as an assistant to the Portuguese MEPs Miguel Portas and Marisa Matias (both Bloco des Esquerda) work. In addition, Gusmão played an important role within the party: Among other things, he led parts of the negotiations with the socialists in the aftermath of the 2015 parliamentary elections, whereupon the Bloco de Esquerda concluded a toleration agreement with the socialists, who governed by a parliamentary minority. He also supported Marisa Matias not only in her role as a MEP, but also in the context of her candidacy for President 2016. Gusmão had not reported parts of these activities to the European Parliament, which, after a complaint, led to an investigation into unauthorized secondary employment. The investigation ended with no result.

For the European elections in 2019 , the Bloco de Esquerda Gusmão voted for second place on the list - after Marisa Matias. Due to the high result (9.8 percent), the party won two mandates (of 21 awarded in Portugal), so that in addition to Marisa Matias, José Gusmão also won a mandate. Like Matias, he joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left / Nordic Green Left . For the parliamentary group, he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs , of which he was elected vice-chair. He is also a deputy member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee .

Web links

Commons : José Gusmão  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Biografia José Gusmão (BE). Assembleia da República, 2009, accessed June 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Miguel Pais: Bruxelas investiga trabalho extra de José Gusmão. August 10, 2016, accessed June 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Assistant de Marisa Matias na mira de Bruxelas. In: Visão. August 10, 2016, accessed June 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ José Pedro Mozos: Europeias. José Gusmão é o número dois do Bloco de Esquerda. In: Observador.pt. February 16, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ José Gusmão é número dois na lista do BE às europeias. In: Público. February 16, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Home | José GUSMÃO | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gusmão, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gusmão, José Guilherme Figueiredo Nobre de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese Economist and Politician (BE), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon