Assunção Cristas

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Assunção Cristas

Maria da Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born September 28, 1974 in Luanda , Angola ) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician.

In the government that was formed after the parliamentary elections in 2011, she assumed the post of Minister for Agriculture, Sea & Fisheries, Environment, Spatial Planning and Regional Development on June 21, 2011.

Life

Assunção Cristas was born in what was then the Portuguese colony (officially “ Overseas Province”) and came to Portugal shortly afterwards - after the country gained independence in 1975 - with her family. Her father owned a coffee plantation in northwestern Angola and had seven children in total.
Assunção Cristas graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Lisbon , where she graduated in 1997. She married Tiago Pereira dos Reis Machado da Graça, has three children and is a practicing Catholic.

Professional background

During her last two years of study, Assunção Cristas was a “monitor” at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon. After graduating, she was an assistant there from 1997 to 1999. After passing the relevant exams, she was admitted to the bar in 1999. She practiced in a law firm, but in 2004 became a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the New University of Lisbon . There she did her doctorate in the field of private law with a dissertation on contract law in the credit sector. In 2005 she was appointed "professora auxiliar", and in 2009 she was promoted to "professora associada". During these years she also taught as an assistant at the University of Police Sciences and Internal Security. Since 2010 she has been a legal advisor in a well-known law firm.

Political career

As a non-party, Assunção Cristas became assessor of the Minister of Justice in 2002 and headed the study group for legislation and planning there until 2005. In 2007 she joined the CDS , the strongest conservative party in Portugal, which ranks behind the PS and PSD in terms of size and was then in the opposition. She quickly rose to the leadership group and became deputy chairman in 2009. In the parliamentary elections of 2009 and 2011 , she was elected a member of the electoral district of Leiria ; From 2009 to 2011 she was deputy group leader.

In June 2011 she was a member of the CDS delegation which negotiated a coalition with the election winner PSD. In the government that emerged from these negotiations, it was entrusted with a ministry that brought together two ministries that had existed until then and was responsible for a considerable number of areas: agriculture and rural development, sea and fisheries, environment, spatial planning and regional development. This corresponds to a line given by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho to drastically reduce the number of ministers and ministries as part of the general austerity measures. In the course of a government reshuffle, the areas of environment and spatial planning were spun off from Assunção Cristas's area of ​​responsibility in 2013 and formed a separate ministry.

In the 2015 parliamentary election , the PSD / CDS coalition lost its majority. A government of the PS followed, supported by the PCP and BE in parliament. Assunção Cristas thus lost her ministerial office, but remained a member of parliament and was elected as his successor after the departure of the chairman of the CDS, Paulo Portas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perfil: Assunção Cristas, ministra da Agricultura, Ambiente, Mar e Ordenamento do Território. ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: Publico. June 17, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.publico.pt
  2. ^ Perfil: Assunção Cristas, ministra da Agricultura. on: Económico. June 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ Student assistant to look after younger students
  4. ↑ CV
  5. ↑ MLGTS & Associados ( Memento of the original of May 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mlgts.pt
  6. ^ Quadro Docente . iscpsi.pt. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  7. ↑ Registo de interest . parliamento.pt. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  8. ↑ Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva e Associados
  9. ↑ Parliament


personal data
SURNAME Cristas, Assunção
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cristas Machado da Graça, Maria da Assunção de Oliveira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese lawyer, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Luanda