Filipa Maria Gonçalves Pinto (born 29 May 1971) is a Portuguese teacher, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national

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of Portugal. A member of the

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party, she was elected to represent

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at the 2025 legislative election. She was previously a member of the Assembly between October 2024 and January 2025.

Early life

Pinto was born on 29 May 1971 in

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. She grew up in the village of . She has a

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in teaching Portuguese- English from the

University of Minho The University of Minho (''Universidade do Minho'') is a public university in Minho Province, Portugal. It is divided into the following campuses: * Largo do Paço (rectorate), in Braga * Campus of Gualtar, in Braga * Convento dos Congregados, i ...

(1993).

Career

After graduating Pinto was an

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in Caldas das Taipas before moving to

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where she taught in São João da Talha and

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. She has taught at the Escola Secundária in

Lousada Lousada () is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,387, in an area of 96.08 km². It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which ...

since 1996. She also taught at the Instituto de Línguas – APAR in

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, preparing students for the Cambridge Exams. She is also an advisor at the . Pinto entered politics in 2019 when she unsuccessfully contested the

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as an

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candidate on

's list. She later joined LIVRE and is a member of the party's Contact Group, the party's

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. She was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2022 legislative election in

but the party failed to win any seats in the constituency. She was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2024 legislative election in Porto but the party only won one seat in the constituency. She was a candidate for LIVRE at the

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but the party failed to win any seats. She temporarily replaced Jorge Pinto in the Assembly of the Republic between October 2024 and January 2025 whilst he was on

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. She was elected at the 2025 legislative election.

Electoral history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinto, Filipa 1971 births Living people LIVRE politicians Members of the 16th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) Members of the 17th Assembly of the Republic (Portugal) People from Lousada Portuguese schoolteachers University of Minho alumni Women members of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)