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Assunção Cristas

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Assunção Cristas
Assunção Cristas in 2017
President of CDS – People's Party
In office
13 March 2016 – 26 January 2020
Preceded byPaulo Portas
Succeeded byFrancisco Rodrigues dos Santos
Minister of Agriculture and Sea
In office
21 June 2011 – 26 November 2015
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
Preceded byAntónio Serrano
Succeeded byLuís Capoulas Santos
Minister of the Environment and Territorial Planning
In office
21 June 2011 – 24 July 2013
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
Preceded byDulce Pássaro
Succeeded byJorge Moreira da Silva
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
15 October 2009 – 27 January 2020
ConstituencyLeiria (2009–2019)
Lisbon (2019–2020)
Member of the Lisbon City Council
In office
1 October 2017 – 17 October 2021
Personal details
Born
Maria de Assunção de Oliveira Cristas

(1974-09-28) 28 September 1974 (age 50)
Luanda, Portuguese Angola
Political partyCDS – People's Party (2007–present)
Spouse
Tiago Machado da Graça
(m. 1998)
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon
OccupationLawyerProfessorPolitician

Maria de Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born 28 September 1974) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician. She was the President of the CDS – People's Party from 2016 to 2020.[1][2]

Since 2017 she's also opposition leader councilwoman in the Lisbon City Council, elected with 21% of the popular vote.

From 2011 to 2015, she served as Minister of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Territorial Planning in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.[3]

Life before politics

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She is a lawyer by training and a professor at the New University of Lisbon. She graduated in law in 1997 by the University of Lisbon,[4] was admitted in the Portuguese Bar Association in 1999 and completed her doctorate in Private Law in 2004.

Political career

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Assunção Cristas has been a member of Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party since 2007. She was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2009 elections, representing Leiria. She was re-elected in 2011 elections, participating in the negotiations between her party and the winning Social Democratic Party to form a coalition government.

Cristas led the CDS-PP into the 2019 elections. Her party was defeated, with the CDS-PP losing 13 seats and retaining only 5. She announced her resignation as leader of CDS-PP that evening.[5]

Electoral history

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CDS–PP leadership election, 2016

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Ballot: 13 March 2016
Candidate Votes %
Assunção Cristas 877 98.8
Miguel Mattos Chaves 11 1.2
Turnout 888
Source: Results[6]

Lisbon City Council election, 2017

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Ballot: 1 October 2017
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS Fernando Medina 106,036 42.0 8 –3
CDS–PP/MPT/PPM Assunção Cristas 51,984 20.6 4 +3
PSD Teresa Leal Coelho 28,336 11.2 2 –1
CDU João Ferreira 24,110 9.6 2 ±0
BE Ricardo Robles 18,025 7.1 1 +1
PAN Inês Sousa Real 7,658 3.0 0 ±0
Other parties 5,833 2.3 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 10,498 4.2
Turnout 252,481 51.16 17 ±0
Source: Autárquicas 2017[7]

Legislative election, 2019

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Ballot: 6 October 2019
Party Candidate Votes % Seats +/−
PS António Costa 1,903,687 36.3 108 +22
PSD Rui Rio 1,454,283 27.8 79 –10
BE Catarina Martins 498,549 9.5 19 ±0
CDU Jerónimo de Sousa 332,018 6.3 12 –5
CDS–PP Assunção Cristas 221,094 4.2 5 –13
PAN André Silva 173,931 3.3 4 +3
Chega André Ventura 67,502 1.3 1 new
IL Carlos Guimarães Pinto 67,443 1.3 1 new
Livre Collective leadership 56,940 1.1 1 +1
Other parties 207,162 4.0 0 ±0
Blank/Invalid ballots 254,875 4.9
Turnout 5,237,484 48.60 230 ±0
Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Biografia". www.parlamento.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-08-13.
  2. ^ "Assunção Cristas". NOVA School of Law | Faculdade de Direito da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-08-13.
  3. ^ Portugal, Grand Union. "Assunção Cristas". www.historico.portugal.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2024-08-13.
  4. ^ "ASSUNÇÃO CRISTAS MINISTRA DA AGRICULTURA E DO MAR". Archived from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  5. ^ Rodrigues, Ana Sofia (October 7, 2019). "Assunção Cristas anuncia saída da liderança do CDS-PP". RTP (in Portuguese).
  6. ^ "Moção de Assunção Cristas vence com 877 votos contra 11". TVI24 (in Portuguese). March 13, 2016. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ^ "Autárquicas 2017". SGMAI. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Mapa Oficial Resultados Legislativas 2019" (PDF). CNE. Retrieved 5 August 2024.