Diana Ferreira is a Portuguese psychologist and politician. A member of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), she has been a deputy to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal since September 2014, representing the
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
constituency.
Early life
Diana Jorge Martins Ferreira was born in Porto on 17 March 1981 and lived in the
Massarelos
Massarelos () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos. The population in 2011 was 6,789, in an area of 1.94 km².University of Porto, where she was on the board of the students' association for the faculty. She worked as a psychologist until August 2014.
Political career
Ferreira joined the youth organization of the Portuguese Communist Party and became a member of the national directorate. In 2013 she was elected to be a member of the Municipal Assembly of Vila Nova de Gaia, the city immediately south of Porto on the left bank of the Douro river, as well as a member of the Parish Assembly of
Gulpilhares e Valadares
Gulpilhares e Valadares is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Gulpilhares
Gulpilhares is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia
Vil ...
, which is in Vila Nova de Gaia. In September 2014 she became a deputy of the National Assembly as a substitute, being re-elected in 2015 and 2019, always for the
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
constituency. In 2019 she headed the list of candidates for Porto put forward by the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU), which is a coalition between (PCP), of which she is a member, and the Ecologist Party "The Greens". Still head of the list in the January 2022 elections, she was the only CDU representative to be elected in Porto in an election that proved disastrous for parties of the extreme left.
In the Assembly, Ferreira has served on the Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport Commission and the Labour and Social Security Commission, where she was vice-president, as well as on a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry investigating the theft of military material from the Tancos military base.