Maria da Assunção Esteves

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Andrade and the second or paternal family name is Esteves.

Her Excellency Assunção Esteves
President of the Assembly of the Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 June 2011
Preceded by	Jaime Gama
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 June 2004 – 13 July 2009
Judge of the Constitutional Court
In office 2 August 1989 – 4 March 1998
Personal details
Born	15 October 1956 Valpaços, Portugal
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Profession	Jurist

Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves^[1] (born October 15, 1956 in Valpaços) is a Portuguese politician and 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]

On 21 June 2011 she was elected President of the Assembly of the Republic and it is the first woman elected as President of the Assembly of the Republic.^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=2006
2. ^ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/alphaOrder/view.do;jsessionid=713BDA68BAA445F17BCAEA96097D0854.node1?language=PT&id=28401
3. ^ http://www.publico.pt/Pol%C3%ADtica/assuncao-esteves-eleita-presidente-da-assembleia-por-maioria-confortavel_1499675 (in Portuguese)

Persondata
Name	Esteves, Maria da Assunção
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	15 October 1956
Place of birth	Valpaços
Date of death
Place of death