António Garcia Pereira
Portuguese politician
António Pestana Garcia Pereira (born 14 November 1952) is a Portuguese lawyer, university professor, and politician. Until 2015, he was the best-known member of the Marxist–Leninist PCTP/MRPP - Portuguese Workers' Communist Party/Re-Organized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat.
He was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election, where he placed sixth with 0.44 per cent of the vote. He had already run in the 2001 presidential election, getting 1.69 per cent of the vote.
He served as president of the Human Rights Commission of the Portuguese Bar Association from 1998 to 2000. Currently, he holds the positions of president of the Portuguese Association for Citizens' Rights, honorary president of the CPLP Energy Union Committee, and honorary president of APAR – the Portuguese Association for Prisoner Support.
Early life, education and career
António Garcia Pereira is the son of Aníbal Garcia Pereira, a German teacher, and Maria Emília Rego dos Santos Pestana de Garcia Pereira, a housewife and daughter of Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior, Finance Minister of the First Portuguese Republic. Pestana Júnior gained prominence during the 1907 academic strike led by republican students, for which he was prosecuted, tried, and acquitted. He served as administrator of the municipality of Funchal on the island of Madeira, appointed by the Republic in 1911. From 1922 to 1926, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira representing Lisbon.
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