Education
University of Lisbon.
University of Lisbon.
From 2011 to 2015, she served as Minister of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Territorial Planning in the government led by Pedro Passos Coelho. 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, was admitted in the Portuguese Bar Association in 1999 and completed her doctorate in Private Law in 2004.
She was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2009 elections, representing Leiria.
Before entering the party, she was already known as an advocate against abortion.
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.
Assunção Cristas is a member of Democratic and Social Centre - People"s Party since 2007.
