Sandra Pereira

Pereira was elected as MEP in the 2019 European Parliament election. In the European Parliament, she was a member of the far-left political group The Left – GUE/NGL.

During her tenure, she took political positions aligned with a consistently pro-Russia stance. Analyses of her voting record have identified her among the MEPs most aligned with Russian state interests, opposing all major resolutions critical of the Russian government.^[2][3]

On 2 March 2022, she was one of 13 MEPs who voted against condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and against designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism in the context of deliberate Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure.^[2][4][5]

On 15 September 2022, Pereira was one of 16 MEPs who voted against condemning President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua for human rights violations, in particular the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez.^[6][7]

In 2023, she was one of 14 MEPs who voted against a resolution condemning the abduction of Tibetan children and other forced assimilation practices by China.^[8]

In 2019, she voted against the resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe, which condemned all totalitarian ideologies, including both Nazism and Stalinism.^[9] Pereira justified her vote by denouncing the resolution as an anti-communist distortion of history.^[10]

In 2024, she voted against a resolution recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide.^[11] She argued that the resolution constituted a falsification of history and an attempt to defame the Soviet Union, rejecting the characterization of the massive man-made famine as a planned act of genocide.^[12]