Patrícia Caixinha

In 2008, Caixinha became director of the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores da Actividade Seguradora (STAS), a union for insurance workers, based in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. She is also the proprietor of a company called Growise, which offers life-coaching services.^[2][4]

In 2017, she was elected as a member of the parish assembly of Pinhal Novo, a small town in the Palmela municipality, southeast of Lisbon. In the same year she became a member of the Palmela municipal assembly. In the 2024 national election, called by president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa after the resignation of prime minister António Costa, leader of the PS, following allegations of corruption against members of his government, Caixinha was included as second on the list of PS candidates for the Castelo Branco constituency. This caused some controversy as she lived in the Lisbon Region, whereas Castelo Branco is in the centre of the country. There were suggestions that she had been imposed on the constituency party by the head office of the PS. Nevertheless, the PS won two of the four seats available in the constituency, and Caixinha was duly elected to the National Assembly.^{[1][5][6][7][8]}