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Inês de Saint-Maurice Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida (born 15 April 1968) is a Portuguese actress and politician. She won a

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in 1996. A member of the

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, she was a deputy in the Assembly of the Republic from 2009 to 2016, and mayor of

Almada Almada () is a city and a municipality in Portugal, located on the southern margin of the Tagus River, on the opposite side of the river from Lisbon. The two cities are connected by the 25 de Abril Bridge. The population in 2011 was 174,030, in ...

from 2017.

Early life and acting

Medeiros was born in

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, Austria, where her father

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was a conductor, while her mother Maria Armanda Esteves was a journalist. Her sister Maria is also an actress. The family moved regularly until the

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in Portugal in 1974; they settled in Lisbon the year after. She studied two years of Portuguese literature at the

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but did not graduate; she then studied theatre for two years at

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. Medeiros made her cinematic debut in 1981's ''A Culpa'', directed by her father. In 1996, she won a

Politics

In the October 2009 elections, Medeiros was elected to the Assembly of the Republic for the

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, representing the

(PS). She commuted to the legislature from her home in

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, with the tickets being reimbursed by the state as if they were flights between Lisbon and the

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, €620 return. This was in agreement with pre-existing legislation around deputies from that archipelago. PS parliamentary leader

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said of the matter "On a scale of zero to 100 of the main problems in this country

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this subject must come 300th". She was re-elected in 2011 and

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, the latter time by the

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. In the 2017 municipal elections, Medeiros became mayor of

after forming a coalition with the

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; the result ended the hegemony of the

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that had existed in the city since the first democratic elections in 1976. She won a second term in 2021, ahead of the former three-term Communist mayor of nearby

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. In late 2022, the Almada local government led by Medeiros began the demolition of the ''Bairro do Segundo Torrão'', a shanty town in

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inhabited mainly by immigrants. The reason given was that drainage problems could have caused the buildings to collapse. The decision was condemned by Amnesty International. Medeiros said that residents had been put in emergency accommodation in Almada or Lisbon hotels until housing contracts could be finalised. The deadline for leaving before demolition was 30 September; houses collapsed into the drainage ditch due to heavy rains on 20 October.

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