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BE deputy Marisa Matias temporarily suspends her mandate from Wednesday due to a surgical intervention that was already planned before the elections and will be replaced by Isabel Pires, a party source told Lusa this Monday.
According to the same official Blocist source, during this period of Marisa Matias’ absence, Joana Mortágua will occupy the role of vice-president of the parliamentary bench.
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A former MEP will be out of parliament from Wednesday to carrying out a surgical intervention planned since before the elections and will resume his mandate as soon as possible from a clinical point of view.
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Marisa Matias will be temporarily replaced by Isabel Pires
In the last legislative elections, Marisa Matias topped the BE list for the Porto constituency, this being her debut in the Assembly of the Republic, after having been in the European Parliament since 2009.
The bloc leader, who is part of the party’s main bodies such as the Secretariat, the Political Commission and the National Board, has already been the main protagonist of four candidacies for BE: head of the list for the European Parliament (2014 and 2019) and the candidate supported by BE at last two presidential elections (2016 and 2021).
Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias was born in Coimbra on February 20, 1976 and is a sociologist, an area in which she has a degree, master’s degree and doctorate.
From an early age, she became involved in student and civic causes, having been the national representative of the “Citizenship and Responsibility Movement for Yes”, during the national referendum for the decriminalization of abortion in 2007.