Isilda Gomes | |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1951 |
Birth Place: | Almeida, Portugal |
Party: | Socialist Party |
Office1: | Member of the European Parliament for Portugal |
Termstart1: | 16 July 2024 |
Office2: | Mayor of Portimão |
Termstart2: | 29 September 2013 |
Termend2: | 30 April 2024 |
Successor2: | Álvaro Miguel Bila |
Predecessor2: | Manuel da Luz |
Office3: | Civil Governor of the Faro District |
Term Start3: | 27 November 2009 |
Term End3: | 30 November 2011 |
Term Start4: | 1 June 2007 |
Term End4: | 14 August 2009 |
Alma Mater: | University of Lisbon University of Seville |
Occupation: | Teacher • politician |
Predecessor4: | António Ventura Pina |
Successor4: | Carlos Silva Gomes |
Predecessor3: | Carlos Silva Gomes |
Successor3: | Office abolished |
Office5: | President of the Portimão Municipal Assembly |
Term Start5: | 9 October 2005 |
Office6: | Member of the Portimão City Council |
Term Start6: | 14 December 1997 |
Term End6: | 9 October 2005 |
Term End5: | 1 June 2007 |
Isilda Maria Prazeres dos Santos Varges Gomes (born 16 September 1951) is a Portuguese politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party since 2024.[1]
She was the Civil Governor of the District of Faro between 2007 and 2009, and again between 2009 and 2011.[2] [3] She was elected Mayor of Portimão in 2013, with a relative majority (3 elected out of 7), on the PS lists; later she assured an absolute majority in the municipal executive through a post-electoral coalition with the only elected member of the PSD. In the local elections of 2017, she was re-elected, now with an absolute majority.[4]