Maria Amélia do Carmo Mota Santos (born 25 August 1952) is a Portuguese politician and academic.
[1] Santos began her political career in 1985, winning a seat in the Assembly of the Republic in the 1985 Portuguese legislative election.
As a member of the European Parliament, Santos was on the Committee on Development and Cooperation, and served as chair of The Green Group in the European Parliament until 1990.
She originally served in parliament as a member of The Greens for Portugal, but left the party in 1991 and canvassed with the Group of the Party of European Socialists for the European Union; she remained politically independent in Portugal through the rest of her term.
[2] Santos did not run for re-election in 1994, but was re-elected to the Assembly as a member of the Socialist Party after the 1999 Portuguese legislative election, and served in that position until 2005.