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Beatriz Borges de Sousa Vaz Moreno Porée is a Jersey politician who has served as Deputy for St Helier South since 2022. Porée was born in
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, but was raised in
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after becoming a child refugee in the
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. She moved to Jersey in the late 1980s and founded a juice bar business in the
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. Porée successfully ran for election in the
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as a
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candidate in St Helier South, becoming the first
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and second person of Portuguese descent to be elected to the
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