Patrícia Ribeiro Faro


Patrícia Ribeiro Faro is a Portuguese psychologist and politician. As a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she was elected as a deputy in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic in January 2022, representing Porto and was re-elected in the 2024 election.

Early life and education

Patrícia Ribeiro Faro was born in 1972 in Matosinhos, a coastal city to the northwest of Porto in Portugal. She graduated in social work in 1996 from the Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto in the area of justice and social reintegration. In 2003 she completed post-graduate studies on legal problems and drug addiction. In December 2012, she obtained a master's degree in legal psychology from the Fernando Pessoa University with a dissertation on Representations of victims of domestic violence in the criminal justice system. In 2014 she received qualifications in victim support. She has been studying for a PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.

Career

Since 2005, Faro has been the technical director of the Portuguese Red Cross shelter in Matosinhos for women and children who are victims of domestic violence and president of the Matosinhos Red Cross since 2008. She participated in the design and development of an Emergency Shelter House intended for the temporary reception of female victims of domestic violence, and their children. Since 2014, she has been vice-president of the Porto Red Cross. In April 2021 she was appointed as a specialist government advisor to the Office of the Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality.

Political life

Faro became a deputy in the Porto municipal assembly in 2017. In July 2020 she was elected president of Porto Socialist Women – Equality and Rights for the 2020–2022 term. In the January 2022 Portuguese legislative election she was elected to the National Assembly, being 15th on the Socialist Party's list for the Porto constituency. The PS won 19 seats in Porto and an overall majority in the country. She was re-elected in 2024, being fifth on the PS list of candidates.