| Maria de Belém Roseira | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GCC |
| Office: | President of the Socialist Party |
| Term Start: | 9 September 2011 |
| Term End: | 29 November 2014 |
| 1Namedata: | António José Seguro |
| Predecessor: | António de Almeida Santos |
| Successor: | Carlos César |
| Office1: | President of the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party |
| Term Start1: | June 2011 |
| Term End1: | September 2011 |
| Predecessor1: | Francisco Assis |
| Successor1: | Carlos Zorrinho |
| Office2: | Minister for Equality |
| Primeminister2: | António Guterres |
| Term Start2: | 25 October 1999 |
| Term End2: | 15 September 2000 |
| Predecessor2: | Office established |
| Successor2: | Office abolished |
| Office3: | Minister of Health |
| Primeminister3: | António Guterres |
| Term Start3: | 28 October 1995 |
| Term End3: | 25 October 1999 |
| Predecessor3: | Paulo Mendo |
| Successor3: | Manuela Arcanjo |
| Term Start4: | 22 June 2011 |
| Term End4: | 22 October 2015[1] [2] |
| Constituency4: | Lisbon |
| Term Start5: | 15 October 2009 |
| Term End5: | 19 June 2011 |
| Constituency5: | Aveiro |
| Term Start6: | 10 March 2005 |
| Term End6: | 14 October 2009 |
| Constituency6: | Lisbon |
| Term Start7: | 5 April 2002 |
| Term End7: | 9 March 2005 |
| Constituency7: | Aveiro |
| Term Start8: | 25 October 1999 |
| Term End8: | 4 April 2002 |
| Constituency8: | Porto |
| Birth Date: | 28 July 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Porto, Portugal |
| Party: | Socialist Party |
| Spouse: | Manuel Pina |
| Alma Mater: | University of Coimbra |
Maria de Belém Roseira Martins Coelho Henriques de Pina (born 28 July 1949) is a Portuguese politician who served as Minister of Health from 1995 to 1999, Minister for Equality from 1999 to 2000, and President of the Socialist Party from 2011 to 2014.[3] She is informally known as Maria de Belém.
She graduated in Law at the University of Coimbra in 1972.[4]
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 [5] 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).[6]
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.[7] [8] [9]
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.[10] [11] [12] [13]