Felicidade Vital
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Felicidade Vital De Alcântara | |
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| Member of the Assembly of the Republic | |
| Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon District |
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| Born | 13 June 1965 |
| Party |  Portuguese:CHEGA |
| Occupation | Politician |
Felicidade Maria da Silva Santos Vital de Alcântara (born 13 June 1965) is a Portuguese politician. In the 2024 Portuguese national election she was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a representative of the right-wing CHEGA party.[1]
Vital was born in Luanda on 13 June 1965 in what was then Portuguese Angola. Her parents returned to Portugal from Angola when she was four, to live in the capital of Lisbon, residing in the Campo de Ourique district. She studied at Liceu Rainha D. Leonor, a girls' school, and then graduated in 1991 with a degree in chemical engineering from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), now part of the Polytechnical Institute of Lisbon. In 1998 she received a master's degree in project management from the Lisbon campus of the Catholic University of Portugal. She also studied cardiopulmonology and rehabilitation.[2][3]