| Assunção Cristas | |
| Office1: | President of CDS – People's Party |
| Term Start1: | 13 March 2016 |
| Term End1: | 26 January 2020 |
| Predecessor1: | Paulo Portas |
| Successor1: | Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos |
| Office2: | Minister of Agriculture and Sea |
| Term Start2: | 21 June 2011 |
| Term End2: | 26 November 2015 |
| Primeminister2: | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Predecessor2: | António Serrano |
| Successor2: | Luís Capoulas Santos |
| Office3: | Minister of the Environment and Territorial Planning |
| Term Start3: | 21 June 2011 |
| Term End3: | 24 July 2013 |
| Primeminister3: | Pedro Passos Coelho |
| Predecessor3: | Dulce Pássaro |
| Successor3: | Jorge Moreira da Silva |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Luanda, Portuguese Angola |
| Party: | CDS – People's Party (2007–present) |
| Children: | 4 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Lisbon |
| Term Start4: | 15 October 2009 |
| Term End4: | 27 January 2020 |
| Constituency4: | Leiria (2009–2019) Lisbon (2019–2020) |
| Birth Name: | Maria de Assunção de Oliveira Cristas |
| Occupation: | Lawyer • Professor • Politician |
| Office5: | Member of the Lisbon City Council |
| Term End5: | 17 October 2021 |
| Term Start5: | 1 October 2017 |
Maria de Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born 28 September 1974) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician. She was the President of the CDS – People's Party from 2016 to 2020.[1] [2]
Since 2017 she's also opposition leader councilwoman in the Lisbon City Council, elected with 21% of the popular vote.
From 2011 to 2015, she served as Minister of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Territorial Planning in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho.[3]
She is a lawyer by training and a professor at the New University of Lisbon. She graduated in law in 1997 by the University of Lisbon,[4] was admitted in the Portuguese Bar Association in 1999 and completed her doctorate in Private Law in 2004.
Assunção Cristas has been a member of Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party since 2007. She was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2009 elections, representing Leiria. She was re-elected in 2011 elections, participating in the negotiations between her party and the winning Social Democratic Party to form a coalition government.
Cristas led the CDS-PP into the 2019 elections. Her party was defeated, with the CDS-PP losing 13 seats and retaining only 5. She announced her resignation as leader of CDS-PP that evening.[5]
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! align="center" colspan=2 style="width: 60px"|Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%|-|bgcolor=|| align=left | Assunção Cristas| align=right | 877| align=right | 98.8|-|bgcolor=|| align=left | Miguel Mattos Chaves| align=right | 11| align=right | 1.2|-|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Turnout| align=right | 888| align=right | |-| colspan="4" align=left|Source: Results[6] |}
See main article: 2017 Lisbon local election. |-! colspan="2" | Party! Candidate! align="center" style="width: 50px"| Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/−|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PS| align=left |Fernando Medina || 106,036 || 42.0 || 8 || style="color:red;"| –3|-| style="background:#0066CC;"|| align="left"|CDS–PP/MPT/PPM| align=left |Assunção Cristas || 51,984 || 20.6 || 4 || style="color:green;"| +3|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PSD| align=left |Teresa Leal Coelho || 28,336 || 11.2 || 2 || style="color:red;"| –1|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDU| align=left |João Ferreira || 24,110 || 9.6 || 2 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| BE| align=left |Ricardo Robles || 18,025 || 7.1 || 1 || style="color:green;"| +1|-| style="background:teal;"|| align="left"| PAN| align=left |Inês Sousa Real || 7,658 || 3.0 || 0 || ±0|-| style="background:white;"|| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties| 5,833 || 2.3 || 0 || ±0|-| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 10,498 || 4.2 || – || –|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout| 252,481 || 51.16 || 17 || ±0|-| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Autárquicas 2017[7] |}
See main article: 2019 Portuguese legislative election. |-! colspan="2" | Party! Candidate! Votes! align="center" style="width: 50px"|%! align="center" style="width: 50px"|Seats! align="center" style="width: 50px"|+/−|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PS| align=left |António Costa || 1,903,687 || 36.3 || 108 || style="color:green;"| +22|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"|PSD| align=left |Rui Rio || 1,454,283 || 27.8 || 79 || style="color:red;"| –10|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| BE| align=left |Catarina Martins || 498,549 || 9.5 || 19 || ±0|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDU| align=left |Jerónimo de Sousa || 332,018 || 6.3 || 12 || style="color:red;"| –5|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| CDS–PP| align=left |Assunção Cristas || 221,094 || 4.2 || 5 || style="color:red;"| –13|-| style="background:teal;"|| align="left"| PAN| align=left |André Silva || 173,931 || 3.3 || 4 || style="color:green;"| +3|-| style="background:#202056;"|| align="left"| Chega| align=left |André Ventura || 67,502 || 1.3 || 1 || new|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| IL| align=left |Carlos Guimarães Pinto || 67,443 || 1.3 || 1 || new|-| style="background:;"|| align="left"| Livre| align=left |Collective leadership || 56,940 || 1.1 || 1 || style="color:green;"| +1|-| style="background:white;"|| colspan="2" align="left"| Other parties| 207,162 || 4.0 || 0 || ±0|-| colspan="3" align="left"| Blank/Invalid ballots | 254,875 || 4.9 || – || –|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| colspan="3" align="left"| Turnout| 5,237,484 || 48.60 || 230 || ±0|-| colspan="7" align=left|Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições[8] |}