Maria de Belém Roseira

Maria de Belém Roseira Martins Coelho Henriques de Pina,[1] GCC (born 28 July 1949) is a Portuguese politician who served as President of the Socialist Party from 2011 to 2014. She is informally known as Maria de Belém, or, more commonly, Maria de Belém Roseira.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Roseira and the second or paternal family name is Martins Coelho.
Maria de Belém Roseira
GCC
President of the Socialist Party
In office
9 September 2011 – 29 November 2014
Secretary-GeneralAntónio José Seguro
Preceded byAntónio de Almeida Santos
Succeeded byCarlos César
Minister for Equality
In office
25 October 1999 – 15 September 2000
Prime MinisterAntónio Guterres
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Health
In office
28 October 1995 – 25 October 1999
Prime MinisterAntónio Guterres
Preceded byPaulo Mendo
Succeeded byManuela Arcanjo
Personal details
Born (1949-07-28) 28 July 1949
Porto, Portugal
Political partySocialist Party
SpouseManuel Pina
Alma materUniversity of Coimbra

Biography

She graduated in Law at the University of Coimbra in 1972.[2]

She was Minister of Health (1995–1999) in the first government of António Guterres, and Minister for Equality (1999–2000) early in his second government.

In December 2006, while she was still President of the Parliamentary Health Commission, she was hired as a consultant by Espírito Santo Saúde, a private health provider. She stated that she did not consider there would be any conflict of interest holding both roles simultaneously [3] In 2015, while she was still a member of parliament, she was put forward as a member of the Executive Council of the Board of Governors of Luz Saúde, (formerly Espírito Santo Saúde).[4]

2016 presidential elections

More recently, she was a candidate in the 2016 Portuguese presidential election, but received only 4.26% of the votes, losing to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and not being supported as the official candidate of her party.

Roseira announced her candidacy for the 2016 presidential elections on 17 August 2015 and formalized it on 22 December, at the Constitutional Court, with around 9 200 signatures. Her national agent was Eduardo Marçal Grilo and Simonetta Luz Afonso and Júlio Machado Vaz were the agents in Lisbon and Porto, respectively. Belonging to the honor committee of the candidacy Manuel Alegre, Jorge Coelho, José Vera Jardim, and Alberto Martins. Bruno Matias was the representative for youth.[5][6][7]

She came in 4th place in the elections, with only 4.24% of the votes, a result well below what the initial polls predicted, in which she even disputed the second place with the other candidate supported by members of the Socialist Party, António Sampaio da Nóvoa. The result of less than 5% meant that she was not entitled to a state subsidy to cover the expenses of the electoral campaign.[8][9][10][11]

References
  1. "Maria de Belém Roseira Martins Coelho, * 1949 - Geneall.net". Geneall.net. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. "Maria de Belém Roseira's biography" (web). biography listings. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  3. "Maria de Belém Roseira's private health sector health and parliamentary commission role news" (web). biography listing. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  4. "Maria de Belém Roseira's private health sector role news" (web). biography listings. Retrieved 2015-11-08.
  5. "Maria de Belém 2016". Belém 2016. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  6. "Maria de Belém anuncia candidatura à Presidência da República". Económico. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  7. "Maria de Belém: "Não sou comentadora de notícias de actualidade"". PÚBLICO. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  8. "Presidenciais 2016". PÚBLICO. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  9. "Sondagem TVI: Marcelo venceria primeira volta das presidenciais". tvi24. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  10. Portugal, Rádio e Televisão de. "PS dá liberdade de voto nas presidenciais". PS dá liberdade de voto nas presidenciais (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  11. "Subvenção estatal. Maria de Belém e Edgar Silva com menos de 5% não recebem nada". Observador. Retrieved 2016-01-25.


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