Assunção Cristas

Maria de Assunção de Oliveira Cristas Machado da Graça (born 28 September 1974) is a Portuguese lawyer, professor and politician.

[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.

Assunção Cristas has been a member of Democratic and Social Centre - People's Party since 2007.

Her party was defeated, with the CDS-PP losing 13 seats and retaining only 5.