Francisco Assis

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Francisco José Pereira de Assis Miranda (born 8 January 1965) is a Portuguese politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Socialist Party. He was part of the Party of European Socialists from 2004 to 2009, and again from 2014 until 2019. He is also a former mayor of Amarante, having been in office from 1989 to 1995, and member of the Assembly of Republic on two occasions, the first from 1995 to 2004 and the second from 2009 to 2014.[1]

Assis was elected a Member of the European Parliament in the 2024 European election, and is expected to be sworn-in in the upcoming Tenth European Parliament.[2]

Political career

Role in national politics

Assis challenged incumbent António José Seguro for the party leadership in 2011.[3] When the right-wing coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho lost its absolute majority in parliament as a result of the 2015 Portuguese legislative election, Assis condemned what he described as "left-wing fantasies" within his own Socialist Party, describing any attempt at an agreement with the Portuguese Communist Party and the Left Bloc as "absurd".[4] On 24 November 2015, Socialist leader António Costa was appointed as Prime Minister after forming a parliamentary alliance with three left-wing parties.[5] Assis publicly voiced his opposition to the new coalition agreement,[6][7] which he reaffirmed in the context of the 2017 Portuguese local elections and in the aftermath of the October 2017 Iberian wildfires.[8][9]

Member of the European Parliament (2014–2019)

Ahead of the 2014 European Parliament election in Portugal, the Socialist Party named Assis at the top of their list.[10] Following elections, he became a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He was also the chairman of the parliament's delegation for relations with Mercosur. Assis has been a political commentator for television programmes on TV stations SIC Notícias and TVI 24 and a columnist for the newspaper Público.

Electoral history

Amarante City Council election, 1989

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Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PS Francisco Assis 12,767 45.6 4 +2
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PSD – 9,290 33.2 2 –2
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDS – 3,987 14.3 1 ±0
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDU – 1,027 3.7 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 902 3.2 – –
Turnout 27,973 67.13 7 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 1989[11]

Amarante City Council election, 1993

Ballot: 12 December 1993Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Election table/category
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PS Francisco Assis 18,732 58.8 5 +1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PSD João Mota 10,638 33.4 2 ±0
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDS–PP – 1,296 4.1 0 –1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDU – 483 1.5 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 707 2.2 – –
Turnout 31,856 71.52 7 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 1989[12]

Porto City Council election, 2005

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Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PSD/CDS–PP Rui Rio 63,443 46.2 7 +1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PS Francisco Assis 49,653 36.1 5 –1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDU Rui Sá 12,311 9.0 1 ±0
style="background:Template:Party color;"| BE João Teixeira Lopes 5,797 4.2 0 ±0
Other parties 1,756 1.3 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 4,420 3.2 – –
Turnout 137,380 58.43 13 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2005[13][14]

PS leadership election, 2011

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Ballot: 22 and 23 July 2011Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Election table/category
Candidate Votes %
António José Seguro 23,903 68.0
Francisco Assis 11,257 32.0
Blank/Invalid ballots 367 –
Turnout 35,527
Source: Diretas 2011[15]

European Parliament election, 2014

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Ballot: 25 May 2014Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Election table/category
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PS Francisco Assis 1,034,249 31.5 8 +1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PSD/CDS–PP Paulo Rangel 910,647 27.7 7 –3
style="background:Template:Party color;"| CDU João Ferreira 416,925 12.7 3 +1
style="background:Template:Party color;"| MPT Marinho e Pinto 234,788 7.2 2 +2
style="background:Template:Party color;"| BE Marisa Matias 149,764 4.6 1 –2
style="background:Template:Party color;"| Livre Rui Tavares 71,495 2.2 0 new
PAN Orlando Figueiredo 56,431 1.7 0 new
style="background:Template:Party color;"| PCTP/MRPP Leopoldo Mesquita 54,708 1.7 0 ±0
Other parties 111,765 3.4 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 243,681 7.4 – –
Turnout 3,284,452 33.67 21 –1
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[16]

References

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External links

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