João Manuel Ildefonso Dias (born 16 July 1973) is a
Portuguese politician and former member of the
Assembly of the Republic, the national
legislature of Portugal. A
communist
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, he represented
Beja from March 2018 to March 2024.
Early life
Dias was born on 16 July 1973 in
Serpa.
He has a
degree
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in nursing and
post-graduate qualifications in rehabilitation nursing and
wound treatment
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and
tissue viability.
Career
Dias was a nurse by profession.
He was a nurse at the Unidade Local de Saúde do Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA) from 1996 to 2018.
He also worked at the Unidade de Cuidados Continuados do Centro de Saúde de Beja.
He was a
visiting assistant professor
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Professorship
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at the
University of Évora
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(2012 to 2018),
University of Coimbra (2018 to 2018) and Escola Superior de Enfermagem São José de Cluny (2015).
He also taught at the Escola Superior de Saúde da Cruz Vermelha (2017) and Escola Superior de Saúde Lopes Dias (2016 to 2018).
He has worked with the Portuguese
Red Cross, the
University of Minho and the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute.
Dias has been active in politics since 1996 and is a board member of the
Portuguese Communist Party's
Beja branch.
He was a member of the
municipal council in Beja from 2017 to 2021. At the
2015 legislative election Dias was placed third in the
Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU)'s
list of candidates in
Beja but the alliance only won a single seat in the constituency.
He was appointed to the Assembly as permanent member in March 2018 following the resignation of
João Ramos.
He was re-elected at the
2019
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and
2022
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legislative elections.
At the
2024 legislative election Dias was placed first in the CDU's list of candidates in Beja but the alliance failed to win any seats in the constituency.
Electoral history
Personal life
Dias is married to Lina Maria Sousa dos Santos Dias.
References
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1973 births
21st-century Portuguese politicians
Academic staff of the University of Coimbra
Academic staff of the University of Évora
Living people
Local politicians in Portugal
Members of the 13th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Members of the 14th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Members of the 15th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
People from Beja, Portugal
Portuguese Communist Party politicians
Portuguese nurses