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Also in May, Catarina Martins defended that the issue of presidential elections “for the rest of the country, including for the Bloc”, was not the priority at that time, in the midst of a pandemic crisis, being “a debate that the Bloc has to do very naturally “. .
“I must say that I even consider that we are in a particularly privileged position in the way in which we can have this internal debate and in the solutions that we have for that moment,” he said then.
At the last BE convention, in November 2018, Catarina Martins announced to the great meeting that she would propose Marisa Matias as head of lists for the 2019 European elections.
In this speech, the leader of the blockade reviewed the candidate’s path, praising the “tireless MEP”, the “activist present” and the “brave militant who never rejected a fight no matter how difficult it was.”
“She was the candidate with the most votes in Portugal in a presidential election and one day a woman will be President,” she later highlighted.
Marisa Isabel dos Santos Matias was born in Coimbra on February 20, 1976 and is a sociologist.
From an early age she was involved in student and civic causes, having been the national mandate of the “Citizenship and Responsibility for the Sim Movement”, during the national referendum for the decriminalization of abortion in 2007, having been elected in 2009 for the first time a BE MEP.
In 2014, the first time he led a candidacy, BE elected only one MEP, losing two terms compared to 2009, falling to fifth place in the “ranking” and lagging behind the surprise that came from the MPT, with Marinho and Pinto.
In the last Europeans, BE regained the position of third political force and won two terms.
