Luís Fazenda

Luís Emídio Lopes Mateus Fazenda (born in Lisbon on October 8, 1957) is a Portuguese professor and politician.

Family
He is the son of Emídio Salvador Fazenda (born in Faro on December 19, 1929) and his wife Maria de Lourdes Ortigão Peres Lopes Mateus (born in Faro on July 1, 1931). He is a second-degree great-nephew and second-degree great-great-nephew of Ramalho Ortigão, and brother of Maria da Conceição Lopes Mateus Salvador Fazenda (born in Lisbon on September 4, 1952), who is single and without children.

Biography
He has been a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic for the Left Bloc since 1999 and has served as Vice-President of the Assembly since 2009. He was a candidate for the Presidency of the Sintra Municipal Chamber in the 2013 local elections on behalf of the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda).

He supports the decriminalization of abortion.

Marriage and Descendants
He married Maria do Céu da Cunha Meneses on April 16, 1977. She was born in Lisbon, Santa Maria de Belém, on July 16, 1954, daughter of Alfredo Brasil de Meneses and Júlia de Bettencourt da Cunha. They have a son and a daughter:


 * Rui Sérgio Meneses Fazenda (born in Lisbon, Campo Grande, on April 9, 1978)
 * Vera Isabel Meneses Fazenda (born in Lisbon, Alcântara, on September 25, 1983)