Maria Helena do Rego da Costa Salema Roseta (born 23 December 1947) is a Portuguese architect, specialising in improvements to poorer neighbourhoods, and a politician who was a member of the Assembly of the Republic and President of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly and Mayor of Cascais.
[1] Maria Helena do Rego da Costa Salema Roseta was born in Lisbon on 23 December 1947.
[2] After the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, which overthrew the Estado Novo, Roseta joined Portugal's Social Democratic Party (PSD).
In 1986 she decided to support Mário Soares, the candidate of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) for President of the Republic.
In 1993, she took over the management of Botequim, a bar in Graça, Lisbon previously owned by the poet and social activist, Natália Correia, who died in that year.
In 2011, she launched the BIP-ZIP Lisbon Programme, which was designed to boost partnerships and small local interventions to improve Lisbon's neighbourhoods by supporting projects carried out by parish councils, associations, local authorities, communities and non-governmental organizations.
[2][3][5][6][7] In 2013, the Citizens for Lisbon movement renewed the coalition agreement with the PS for the municipal elections.
She maintained her position as President of the Lisbon Municipal Assembly in 2017 as a representative of the PS but resigned in October 2019 citing personal reasons and wanting to "change her life".