Marta Freitas (politician)

Marta Luísa de Freitas was born on 27 September 1980. She has an undergraduate degree in physiotherapy and a master's in Physical Activity and Sport. She works as a physiotherapist at a retirement home and privately in Madeira.^[1][2]

In 2017, Freitas became a member of the Municipal Assembly in Funchal, capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira. She was elected as a deputy of the National Assembly of Portugal in 2019. As a deputy, she is a member of the parliamentary commission on Labour and Social Security and the Working Group on the Rights of People with Disabilities.^[1] Freitas was re-elected for the Madeira constituency in the 2022 Portuguese legislative election on 30 January 2022, but was not a candidate in the 2024 election.^[3][4][5]

In January 2024 she was elected as the secretary-general of the PS in Madeira.^[6] At the same time she was elected as the president of the political commission of socialist women in the constituency.^[7]