Marisa Matias is the hottest political ticket in Portugal.
January 8, 2016
Presidential candidate (click here) Marisa Matias warned today that if Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the next President of the Republic, the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution are no longer guaranteed.
Speaking to journalists at the Cais do Sodré railway station in Lisbon, the candidate backed by the Left Bloc recalled the statements made by the candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa earlier this week in which he stated that the Constitution should be interpreted as accordance with the timing of its application.
"It is a warning that [Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa] makes to the Portuguese and the way he confessed that, for him, the rights enshrined in the Constitution are not guarantees," said Marisa Matias.
In the opinion of the candidate, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa's statement is an "important revelation", which shows that "with him, health, education, housing, justice, labor rights are rights that have days."
"For me they have no days and it will not be according to the winds that blow from Berlin or Brussels that they will be more constitutional rights or less," said the presidential candidate.
Doctorate in sociology from Coimbra University, Portugal, with the thesis 'Is nature sick of us? Health, environment and new forms of citizenship' (2009)
MA in sociology in the field of social studies related to science and technology, Coimbra University, Portugal (2003); graduate in sociology, Coimbra University, Portugal (1998). Areas of specialisation: environmental health, sociology of science, sociology of health, political sociology. Has published scientific articles and chapters of books and other national and international publications on the relationship between the environment and public health, science and knowledge and democracy and citizenship. Has participated as a trainer/teacher in port-graduate training programmes and courses (including masters and doctorate programmes).
Researcher at Coimbra University's Centre for Social Studies, Portugal, since 2004; research assistant at Coimbra University's Centre for Social Studies, Portugal (2000-2004); teacher of sociology and other subjects at the ITAP and Profitecla schools (2000-2001); editorial secretary at Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (1998-2000).
Member of the Bloco de Esquerda national directorate; member of the directorate of the Pro-Urbe Civic Association (Coimbra). National leader of the 'Citizenship and Responsibility say Yes' movement (click here), within the context of the national referendum on the legalisation of abortion in Portugal. Headed the Bloco de Esquerda list in the Coimbra municipal elections (2005).
