A member of the centre-right Social Democratic Party (PSD), Silvestre was first elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 2019 as a representative of the Leiria constituency.
[1] Olga Cristina Fino Silvestre was born on 19 September 1964 in the parish of Pedreiras in the municipality of Porto de Mós, in the Leiria District in the centre of Portugal.
[2] Silvestre became secretary of the Porto de Mós municipal assembly in 2017.
Among her other roles, she has been a member of the assembly of the inter-municipal community of Pinhal Litoral, a former region of Portugal, president of the political commission of the PSD in Porto de Mós, and the social democratic party women’s coordinator for the Leiria District.
In the January 2022 election, called by the Socialist prime minister, António Costa, after his left-wing coalition partners refused to support the budget, Silvestre was third on the PSD list and was re-elected when PSD won four of the ten seats.