Isabel Mendes Lopes elected parliamentary leader of Livre

The newly elected Livre deputy Isabel Mendes Lopes will be the parliamentary leader of the party’s bench in the next legislative session.

An official source from Livre told Lusa that the leader was unanimously elected by the party’s bench in the Assembly of the Republic, now made up of four deputies, which include spokesperson Rui Tavares.

Isabel Mendes Lopes is 42 years old and is a civil engineer, specializing in mobility and transport.

She was the party’s ‘number two’ in the Lisbon constituency in the last legislative elections, right after the head of the list, Rui Tavares.

She has been a municipal deputy in the capital’s municipality since 2021 and has until now worked in the Livre parliamentary office in the Assembly of the Republic.

He has been at Livre since its foundation, was part of the board between 2015 and 2022 and is currently a member of the Livre Assembly, the highest body between congresses.

The leader was born in the United Kingdom and came to Portugal at the age of two. She currently lives in Lisbon.

On March 10th, Livre went from a single deputy to a parliamentary group of four, made up of Rui Tavares, Isabel Mendes Lopes, Jorge Pinto (elected by Porto) and Paulo Muacho (from Setúbal).

According to provisional data from the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Internal Administration, since emigration votes remain to be counted, Livre obtained 3.26% in the last legislative elections, equivalent to 199,888 votes.