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.
Education
Sacramento has a degree in biology.
Career
Sacramento was elected to the National Assembly as the member for the
Mé-Zóchi District
Mé-Zóchi is a district of São Tomé and Príncipe, on São Tomé Island. Its area is . With 44,752 residents (2012) rising to 50,800 in 2018, it is the second most populous district of the country.parity law that came into effect on 19 November 2022, with a target of 40% women set for the next election.
Sacramento was elected vice president of the Independent Democratic Action party in October 2020, under president
Patrice Trovoada
Patrice Émery Trovoada (born 18 March 1962) is a São Toméan politician who is the 15th prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe since November 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister from February 2008 to June 2008, from August 2010 to ...
. The party won the 2022 legislative elections, with Trovoada elected Prime Minister.
Sacramento was elected president of the National Assembly on 8 November 2022 with 52 votes in favour and three abstentions. She is the second woman to hold the role after poet
Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo
Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (30 April 1926 – 9 March 2010), known as Alda do Espírito Santo or Alda Graça, was a poet from São Tomé e Príncipe working in the Portuguese language. She also served in the Santomean government after ...
(1980-1991), and the first democratically elected to the role. Upon her election, she said a key challenge of her mandate was the "consensual revision of the Constitution" in order to reform the Assembly.