Pedro Filipe Soares
Pedro Filipe Soares | |
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Pedro Filipe Soares in 2022. | |
| President of the Left Bloc's Parliamentary group | |
| In office 6 December 2012 – 26 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Luís Fazenda |
| Succeeded by | Fabian Figueiredo |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| In office 23 October 2015 – 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| In office 27 September 2009 – 22 October 2015 | |
| Constituency | Aveiro |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 February 1979 Castelo de Paiva, Portugal |
| Political party | Left Bloc |
Pedro Filipe Gomes Soares (born 15 February 1979) is a Portuguese mathematician and politician of the Left Bloc.
Born in Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro District, he graduated in Applied Mathematics from the University of Porto, and has a master's degree in remote sensing. In 2001, aged 22, he ran for a city council seat, and four years later he was second on his party's electoral list in the district for the legislative elections.
In 2009, Soares became the first Left Bloc politician elected to the Assembly of the Republic by Aveiro, and was re-elected in 2011. On 6 December 2012, he was voted the party's parliamentary leader. In the 2015 elections, Soares was elected to the Assembly for a third time, this time by Lisbon.