Catarina de Sousa Lobo Martins Portas (

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, 1969) is a

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journalist and

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Biography

She is the daughter of the architect Nuno Portas and of his second wife, Margarida Maria Gomes de Sousa Lobo and half sister of the politicians

Miguel Portas Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee ...

and

Paulo Portas Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, ) is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties, t ...

. Catarina became a journalist in 1988 and worked on the radio (''Correio da Manhã Rádio'' and ''Rádio Comercial'') and on television, firstly in RTP (''Onda Curta'', ''Falatório'', ''Raios e Coriscos'' and ''Frou Frou''), and then in

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. Since 2004, she became a businesswoman, with the inauguration of the ''A Vida Portuguesa'' stores, dedicated to the reselling of

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Portuguese brands. In December 2009, she was nominated by ''

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'' magazine as one of the twenty worldwide names that deserve "a bigger stage".

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