BE’s national coordinator, Mariana Mortágua, will once again assume her mandate as the sole deputy in the Assembly of the Republic on the 23rd of this month.
According to an official source from the parliamentary office, Mariana Mortágua can only return to parliament from the 23rd due to having invoked the category of the Statute of Deputies related to “considerable reasons of a family, personal, professional or academic nature”, which establishes that this replacement “cannot occur for a period of less than 30 days”.
On September 22nd, Mariana Mortágua requested the suspension of her mandate for 30 days and has since been replaced by BE director Andreia Galvão.
This request came at a time when Mariana Mortágua was already part of an international flotilla that intended to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, something that ended up not happening, having been detained by the Israeli authorities, along with three other Portuguese.
At the time, the BE leader highlighted that when she accepted to join the humanitarian mission she expected it to end sooner but “after consideration and considering the unpredictability of navigation conditions” she requested her temporary replacement in parliament, so that the party could be represented in plenary debates.
Mariana Mortágua was also absent from the electoral campaign for local councils during the first week, when she was replaced by BE leaders such as Marisa Matias, Fabian Figueiredo or Joana Mortágua.
He returned to the country on the 5th and two days later he joined the campaign.
In the legislative elections on May 18, BE elected only Mariana Mortágua as the only deputy.