Maria da Assunção Esteves

Portuguese politician

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Her Excellency Assunção Esteves GCC


President of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 21 June 2011 – 23 October 2015
Preceded by	Jaime Gama
Succeeded by	Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues
Member of the Assembly of the Republic
In office 26 October 2009 – 23 October 2015
Constituency	Vila Real
In office 6 April 2002 – 20 June 2004
Constituency	Vila Real
In office 17 August 1987 – 2 August 1989
Constituency	Vila Real
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 June 2004 – 13 July 2009
Constituency	Portugal
Justice of the Constitutional Court
In office 2 August 1989 – 11 March 1998
Preceded by	Raul Mateus da Silva
Succeeded by	Paulo Mota Pinto

Personal details
Born	(1956-10-15) 15 October 1956 (age 67) Valpaços, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Spouse	José Lamego (divorced)
Alma mater	Catholic University of Portugal
Profession	Jurist

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 Party–People's Party coalition, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group,^[2] from 2004 to 2009.

Life and career

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

National

Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (11 November 2015^[6])

Foreign

Mexico: Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (17 August 2015)^[7]
Peru: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (26 July 2013)^[7]

References

^ Biografia
^ Deputados : Maria da Assunção ESTEVES
^ "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)
^ Pereira, Helena (20 November 2011). "Assunção Esteves optou por reforma de 7 mil euros" (in Portuguese). Sol. Retrieved 28 Feb 2016.
^ Redação/CLC (18 November 2011). "Assunção Esteves opta por mais de 7 mil euros de pensão" (in Portuguese). TVI24. Retrieved 28 Feb 2016.
^ "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 29 January 2017.