Nathalie Teixeira de Oliveira (born 16 November 1977) is a French-Portuguese politician. She was a member of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic from 2022 to 2024, and served as deputy mayor of Metz in France until 2020.
In the 2017 French legislative election, she was a candidate for the National Assembly in Moselle's 3rd constituency. She was a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election in France, and the 2024 European Parliament election in Portugal. She was born in Metz to Portuguese parents who emigrated to France in the 1960s.
As the first luso-descendant elected to the Portuguese Assembly, Oliveira fought for changes to the electoral law for the Portuguese diaspora and promised to fight for the rights of the Portuguese people living outside of Portugal.
Electoral history
Portuguese legislative elections ElectionPartyConstituencyList positionParty positionVotes%+/-StatusNotes2019 PS Europe2nd1st31,36229.06%Not ElectedAutomatic voter registration for Portuguese citizens abroad was introduced, increasing the number of voters.20222nd1st36,06932.98% 3.92ElectedThe results of the 2022 legislative election held on 30 January 2022 in the constituency were annulled by the Constitutional Court due ballot papers without copies of voter IDs (which are therefore null and void) being mixed with ballots with voter IDs (which are valid votes) at around 150 polling stations.20242nd2nd38,06116.22% 16.76Not ElectedFor the first time, Chega elected an MP from this constituency.
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