Catarina Vieira
Dutch politician
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Catarina Cordeiro Vieira (born 14 May 1996)[1] is a Portuguese-born Dutch politician of the progressive GroenLinks party.
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Catarina Vieira | |
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Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Greens–European Free Alliance | |
| Constituency | Netherlands |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1996 |
| Party | |
She ran for the European Parliament in June 2024 as the tenth candidate on the shared GroenLinks–PvdA list. The party received a plurality in the Netherlands of eight seats, and Vieira was elected because of the nearly 32,000 preference votes cast for her.[2][3] Her focus is on international trade and human rights.[4] She is most well known for her speech in support of Stop Killing Games, where she references video game quotes.[5]
Personal life
Born in Azores islands, she lives in the Netherlands since 2017 and naturalised Dutch in 2025.[6] She graduated with a bachelor in international relations at the University of Lisbon, spending an exchange year at Charles University in the Czech Republic.[7]
European Parliament committees
- Committee on International Trade
- Delegation to the Africa–EU Parliamentary Assembly
- Subcommittee on Human Rights (substitute)
- Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (substitute)
- EU–Central America Parliamentary Association Committee (substitute)
- Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (substitute)
- Delegation to the OACPS–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (substitute)[8]
Electoral history
| Year | Body | Party | Pos. | Votes | Result | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party seats | Individual | |||||||
| 2024 | European Parliament | GroenLinks–PvdA | 10 | 31,929 | 8 | Won[a] | [2] | |
Notes
- Vieira received enough preference votes to be elected despite her party's result.