Palmira Maciel
Deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
Assumed office
2015
ConstituencyBraga District
Personal details
Born
Palmira Maciel Fernandes

(1961-11-24) 24 November 1961
Lamaçães, Braga District, Portugal
Political partySocialist Party (PS)
SpouseJosé António Ferreira da Costa
OccupationTeacher and politician

Palmira Maciel (born 1961) is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic since 2015, representing the Braga District.

Early life and education

Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa was born on 24 November 1961 in Lamaçães, in the Braga municipality in the north of Portugal. She graduated from the University of Minho as a teacher in biology and geology and later became a secondary school teacher.[1][2][3]

Political career

Maciel has said that she was inspired by Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo, the first and, as of 2022, the only woman to have been prime minister of Portugal. Maciel initially worked with the Lamaçães Parish Assembly, later becoming president of the Lamaçães Parish Council and a councillor on the Braga Municipal Council.[2][3][4]

Maciel was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2015 and 2019. In the 2022 Portuguese legislative election, when the PS won an overall majority, she was fifth on the PS list of candidates for the Braga District, in which the PS had nine candidates elected. In the Assembly she has served on the Committee on Public Administration, Administrative Modernization, Decentralization and Local Power, as well as on a health working group.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa". Parlamento. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa". Parlamento - Registo de Interesses. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa". Os 230. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Palmira Maciel é a candidata do PS à Assembleia Municipal de Braga". O Minho. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
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