Sofia Ribeiro

Sofia Heleno Santos Roque Ribeiro (born July 17, 1976 in São José , Ilha de São Miguel , Azores ) is a Portuguese teacher and non-party politician. She has been a MEP for Portugal since 2014 .

Ribeiro graduated from the University of the Azores with a degree in mathematics in 2000 , followed by a postgraduate degree in school administration in 2008. Since 2000 she has worked as a math teacher in the Azores. She became involved in the teachers' union of the Azores ( Sindicato Democrático dos Professores dos Açores ), from 2005 she gave up all her teaching activities for the union. From 2010 to February 2014 she chaired the union, at the same time she was also deputy chairman of the UGT trade union federation for the Azores.

For the 2014 European elections , the Portuguese Social Democrats (PSD) nominated Sofia Ribeiro to third place on the list. The electoral alliance Aliança Portugal achieved 27.71 percent and thus seven places on the list. Sofia Ribeiro is next to Ricardo Serrão Santos the representative of the Azores in the European Parliament. The nomination of an Azorin for such a good place on the list - and thus a practically guaranteed choice - had been received with surprise.

Web links

• Campaign homepage (Portuguese)
• Entry on Sofia Ribeiro in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Resultados globais das Eleições europeias de 2014. (No longer available online.) DGAI u. DGIE, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 6, 2014 (Portuguese, 100 percent count).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Europeias: to Açoriano em terceiro lugar é "histórico". TVI 24, March 3, 2014, accessed June 20, 2014 (Portuguese).