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Jerónimo De Sousa
Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa (; born 13 April 1947) is a Portuguese politician who served as General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party The Portuguese Communist Party (, , PCP) is a Communism, communist and Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist List of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal. It is one of the strongest List of communist parties, communist par ... from the 17th Congress of the Party in November 2004 to the party's National Conference in November 2022. He is a member of the Assembly of the Republic and was also a candidate in the 2006 presidential election. Electoral results 1996 Portuguese presidential election Jerónimo de Sousa left the race in favour of Jorge Sampaio. 2006 Portuguese presidential election Jerónimo de Sousa finished fourth with 474,083 votes (8.64%).
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General Secretary Of The Portuguese Communist Party
The Portuguese Communist Party (, , PCP) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Portugal. It is one of the strongest communist parties in Western Europe and the oldest Portuguese political party with uninterrupted existence. It is characterized as being between the left-wing and far-left on the political spectrum. Since 1987, it runs to any national, local and European elections in coalition with the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (PEV), assembled in the Unitary Democratic Coalition (CDU). After the death of its secretary-general, Bento Gonçalves, in the Tarrafal concentration camp, the Party went through a period, from 1942 to 1961, without a secretary-general. In 1961, the historic leader Álvaro Cunhal was elected. In 1992, he was succeeded by Carlos Carvalhas, and in 2004 Jerónimo de Sousa was chosen by the Central Committee to be PCP's Secretary General; Paulo Raimundo was elected in 2022, and currently acts as the party leader. The PCP was founded in ...
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