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Electoral Commission

A Electoral Commission is responsible for guaranteeing the legality and transparency of the entire electoral process. It plays a key role in overseeing all stages of the electoral process, from the receipt of nominations to the tabulation of results.

According to the Electoral Regulations, the Commission Electionary is made up of the chairman of the board of the general council and a representative from each of the lists admitted to the election, to be appointed when the respective nominations are submitted.

Composition of the Electoral Commission - Elections 2025

Chairman of the Electoral Commission:
Rui Jorge Dias Costa, CP no. 11 (Chairman of the General Council)

Representatives of the applications received:

Representative of the list headed by Maria António Ferreira de Castro to the General Council: Ana Catarina Monteiro Casaca, CP nº1107

Representative of the List headed by António Manuel Fernandes Lopes for President: Nuno do Carmo Antunes Cordeiro - CP no. 7

Representative of the List headed by Rui Manuel Tomé Torres to the Jurisdictional Council: Rui Manuel Tomé Torres - CP no. 3050

Representative of the List headed by Jorge Manuel dos Santos Conde to the Supervisory Board: Maria Beatriz Dias Fernandes - CP no. 13

Representative of the list headed by José Pedro Pinto Leite for the Northern Regional Directorate: Diana Lima Anjo - CP no. 5469

Representative of the list headed by Carlos Alberto Morgado dos Santos to the Centre Regional Directorate: Joana Maria Boa-Alma Cardoso Pais - CP no. 6644

Representative of the list headed by Luis Manuel Pereira Brás for the Centre Regional Directorate: Luis Manuel Pereira Brás - CP no. 4158

Representative of the list headed by Sandra Margarida Quintas Alves Veloso for the Southern Regional Directorate: Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz - CP no. 2191

Representative of the list headed by Luís Carlos Martins Duarte for the Azores Regional Directorate: Juliana Sofia da Silva Fernandes - CP no. 560

Representative of the list headed by Andrea Miguel Lopes Rodrigues Ribeiro Macedo to the Northern Regional Assembly Board: Andreia Cristina Cordeiro Nogueira - CP no. 7974

Representative of the list headed by Fernando Manuel Tavares da Silva Ribeiro to the Bureau of the Centre Regional Assembly: Maria Fátima Esteves Domingues Leandro - CP no. 1901

Representative of the list headed by Marina Sofia Oliveira Saraiva to the Bureau of the Centre Regional Assembly: Marina Sofia Oliveira Saraiva - CP no. 356

Representative of the List headed by Carlos Alberto Medeiros Mendonça to the Bureau of the Azores Regional Assembly: Inês Margarida Pereira Cardoso - CP no. 1272

Representative of the list headed by Carolina Luísa Quintal Caldeira to the Madeira Regional Assembly Board: Custódia Maria Correia Cabaça Araújo - CP no. 2139

Pedro Maciel Barbosa

Specialist physiotherapist at the Matosinhos Local Health Unit Sub-coordinator for Primary Health Care, Matosinhos Local Health Unit Visiting Assistant Professor at the Porto School of Health Member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Health - SNS Member of the General Council of the Order of Physiotherapists

Carlos Sand

Carlos Areia has been a physiotherapist since 2013, and has worked in various hospitals, clinics and clubs in both Portugal and the UK. He began his academic career at Oxford University in 2016, where he led a clinical trial comparing physiotherapy vs surgery in anterior cruciate injuries in 32 hospitals in England. In 2018 she moved to the neurosciences department, where she developed her own studies on remote monitoring of vital signs, which were implemented during the pandemic. Here he discovered his passion for data, and in 2022, he joined Digital Science as a Data Scientist. He completed his PhD earlier this year, and has more than 60 publications in journals such as The Lancet, BMJ, Cochrane, among others. He is also an honorary lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a consultant in clinical research.

Eduardo José Brazete Carvalho Cruz

PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Brighton, UK. Post-Doctorate in Epidemiology from the National School of Public Health at the New University of Lisbon.
Coordinator of the Studies and Planning Office of the Order of Physiotherapists. Coordinating Professor of the Physiotherapy Department of the School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (ESS-IPS). President of the ESS-IPS Technical-Scientific Council. Coordinator of the Physiotherapy Department at ESS-IPS. Integrated Researcher at the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) (a partnership between FCM-UNL, the National School of Public Health, the University of Évora, the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health and Santo Espírito Hospital, Terceira Island, Azores).

Sara Souto Miranda

Sara Souto Miranda has a bachelor's and master's degree in physiotherapy from the University of Aveiro, and a postgraduate qualification in adult respiratory physiotherapy from the same institution. In 2023 she completed her double doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences/Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universities of Aveiro and Maastricht (Netherlands) and is currently working as a technical-scientific advisor to the Studies and Planning Office (GEP) of the Order of Physiotherapists, and as a guest lecturer at the Piaget Institute in Vila Nova de Gaia. As a member of the Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Aveiro (Lab3R), she has carried out applied research in which she has assessed and treated patients with respiratory pathology, having taken part in 6 research projects. Throughout her career she has published 19 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals with an impact factor, 1 book chapter and more than 50 abstracts in conference proceedings. She was a research volunteer at the Ciro rehabilitation centre (Centre for expertise in chronic organ failure) in the Netherlands, and is currently a member of the Guideline Methodology Network of European Respiratory Society. She was honoured by European Lung Foundation e European Respiratory Society for carrying out patient-centred research, by the Directorate General for Higher Education with a merit grant for his master's degree, and by the Ciro Centre with a grant to support research abroad.

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