Celmira Sacramento

Celmira de Almeida do Sacramento dos Santos Lourenço (born 1975) is a Santomean politician who has been speaker of the National Assembly since November 2022.

[1] Sacramento was elected to the National Assembly as the member for the Mé-Zóchi District in 2010, and subsequently selected in 2014, 2018, and 2022.

[2] She was part of a group that lobbied for the approval of a parity law that came into effect on 19 November 2022, with a target of 40% women set for the next election.

[5] Sacramento was elected president of the National Assembly on 8 November 2022 with 52 votes in favour and three abstentions.

[1] Upon her election, she said a key challenge of her mandate was the "consensual revision of the Constitution" in order to reform the Assembly.

Sacramento with Vladimir Putin 's close associate Vyacheslav Volodin in Moscow, Russia, 20 March 2023