Maria da Assunção Esteves

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Assunção Esteves
President of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
21 June 2011 – 23 October 2015
Preceded byJaime Gama
Succeeded byEduardo Ferro Rodrigues
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office
26 October 2009 – 23 October 2015
ConstituencyVila Real
In office
6 April 2002 – 20 June 2004
ConstituencyVila Real
In office
17 August 1987 – 2 August 1989
ConstituencyVila Real
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 June 2004 – 13 July 2009
ConstituencyPortugal
Justice of the Constitutional Court
In office
2 August 1989 – 11 March 1998
Preceded byRaul Mateus da Silva
Succeeded byPaulo Mota Pinto
Personal details
Born (1956-10-15) 15 October 1956 (age 67)
Valpaços, Portugal
Political partySocial Democratic Party
SpouseJosé Lamego (divorced)
Alma materCatholic University of Portugal
ProfessionJurist

Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves[1] (born 15 October 1956) is a Portuguese politician who was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2011 to 2015. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic PartyPeople's Party coalition, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group,[2] from 2004 to 2009.

Life and career[edit]

Born in Valpaços, Valpaços, Assunção Esteves holds both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she was an assistant between 1989 and 1999. During that time, she was also a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court from 1989 to 1998.

On 21 June 2011 she became the first female President of the Assembly of the Republic.[3] At the time, being unable to receive both her salary of €5,219.15 as President of the Assembly and her retirement pension of €7,255, which she started receiving at the age of 42, for having been a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court, she chose to keep her retirement pension. Additionally, she received €2,133 for work expenses.[4][5]

Honours[edit]

National[edit]

Foreign[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Biografia
  2. ^ Deputados : Maria da Assunção ESTEVES
  3. ^ "Assunção Esteves eleita Presidente da Assembleia por maioria confortável - Política - PUBLICO.PT". Archived from the original on June 24, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2011. (in Portuguese)
  4. ^ Pereira, Helena (20 November 2011). "Assunção Esteves optou por reforma de 7 mil euros" (in Portuguese). Sol. Retrieved 28 Feb 2016.
  5. ^ Redação/CLC (18 November 2011). "Assunção Esteves opta por mais de 7 mil euros de pensão" (in Portuguese). TVI24. Retrieved 28 Feb 2016.
  6. ^ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
  7. ^ a b "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

External links[edit]

Media related to Maria da Assunção Esteves at Wikimedia Commons

Political offices
Preceded by President of the Assembly of the Republic
2011–2015
Succeeded by