Luís Fazenda


Luís Emídio Lopes Mateus Fazenda is a Portuguese professor and politician.

Family

He is the son of Emídio Salvador Fazenda and his wife Maria de Lourdes Ortigão Peres Lopes Mateus. He is a second-degree great-nephew and second-degree great-great-nephew of Ramalho Ortigão, and brother of Maria da Conceição Lopes Mateus Salvador Fazenda, who is single and without children.

Biography

He was a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic for the Left Bloc from 1999 to 2015 and served as Vice-President of the Assembly from 2009 to 2011. He was a candidate for Mayor of Sintra in the 2013 local elections on behalf of the Left Bloc.
He supports the decriminalization of abortion.

Marriage and Descendants

He married Maria do Céu da Cunha Meneses on April 16, 1977. She was born in Lisbon, Santa Maria de Belém, on July 16, 1954, daughter of Alfredo Brasil de Meneses and Júlia de Bettencourt da Cunha. They have a son and a daughter:
  • Rui Sérgio Meneses Fazenda
  • Vera Isabel Meneses Fazenda