Maria da Luz Gameiro Beja Ferreira Rosinha (born 13 May 1948) is a Portuguese politician. As a member of the Socialist Party (PS) she has been a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic between 1995 and 1998 and from 2015 to the present. She has also been a member of the national secretariat of the PS and mayor of the municipality of her birthplace, Vila Franca de Xira.

Early life

Maria da Luz Rosinha was born on 13 May 1948 in Vila Franca de Xira, a municipality in the Lisbon District, in Portugal. At the age of 12, she joined the Young Christian Workers (''Juventude Operária Católica''), of which she would later become a director.

Political life

In 1975, Rosinha joined the Portuguese

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(PS) and became active in local politics in Vila Franca de Xira. Between 1995 and 1998 she served as a PS deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, representing

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. In January 1998 she became mayor of Vila Franca de Xiro, a position she held until September 2013. After ceasing to be mayor, she held several positions, including on the board of the regional tourist body for Lisbon and the

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valley; vice-president of the Lisbon branch of the National Confederation of Family Associations; and president of the council overseeing the development of the Vila Franca de Xira hospital. In the

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Rosinha was again elected to the Assembly of the Republic on the PS list of candidates for Lisbon. She was re-elected in

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and, again, in

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, when she was 9th on the PS list, with the party winning 21 seats in that constituency and securing an overall majority nationwide. In 2018 she became a member of the national secretariat of the PS, a position she held until 2022. Outside of parliament, she is president of the board of trustees of Fundação CEBI, a social welfare and development organization based in Vila Franca de Xira.

Awards and honours

In 2014 Rosinha was made a Commander of the

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. In 2018, an auditorium at the Pedro Jacques de Magalhães School in Alverca do Ribatejo was named after her.

Private life

Rosinha is married to Fernando Ferreira Rosinha.

References

External links

Interview with Rosinha
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