Palmira Maciel
{{Short description|Portuguese politician}}
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| birth_place = Lamaçães, Braga District, Portugal
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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 Braga.
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.{{cite web |title=Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa |url=https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=3936 |website=Parlamento |access-date=13 February 2022}}{{cite web |title=Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa |url=https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/RegInteresses_v3.aspx?BID=3936&leg=XIV |website=Parlamento - Registo de Interesses |access-date=13 February 2022}}{{cite web |title=Palmira Maciel Fernandes da Costa |url=https://www.os230.pt/palmira-maciel-fernandes-da-costa/ |website=Os 230 |access-date=13 February 2022}}
Political career
Maciel has said that she was inspired by Maria de Lurdes Pintassilgo, the first and, as of 2024, 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.{{cite web |title=Palmira Maciel é a candidata do PS à Assembleia Municipal de Braga |url=https://ominho.pt/palmira-maciel-e-a-candidata-do-ps-a-assembleia-municipal-de-braga/ |website=O Minho |access-date=13 February 2022}}
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 Braga, in which the PS had nine candidates elected. In the Assembly she served on the Committee on Public Administration, Administrative Modernization, Decentralization and Local Power, as well as on a health working group. In the March 2024 election the PS won six seats in Braga, with Maciel being second on the list.{{cite news |title=Eleições Legislativas 2024. Deputados Eleitos |url=https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/eleicoes/legislativas2024/deputadoseleitos |access-date=17 March 2024 |agency=CNN}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QadM206X4M0&ab_channel=Os230 Interview with Palmira Maciel]
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Category:Members of the 13th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Category:Members of the 14th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Category:Members of the 15th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Category:Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
Category:Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Category:University of Minho alumni
Category:Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)