The PCP will not present a vote of condolence for the death of Carlos Brito, but will vote in favor of the proposal announced by the president of the Assembly. Carlos Brito fhi leader of the communist parliamentary group for 15 years and candidate to the Presidency of the Republic in 1980.
After the general secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), that “the PCP will not fail to express its regret for a person who, regardless of his departure and the reasons that led to his departure from the Party, had a legacy and an outstanding role in the anti-fascist struggle, in the revolutionary process and had great responsibilities in the Party”, an official source from the parliamentary group explained to the how the party will do it.
“In the meantime, knowing the recent initiative of the President of the Assembly of the Republic, the PCP will follow the sense of regret that surrounds this initiative”, thus ruling out the possibility of the party moving forward with a vote of condolence for .
What did you decide to do the sole deputy of the Left Bloc. Fabian Figueiredo submitted to Parliament a vote of condolence over the death of the historic communist leader.
Contribution “odd” on the democratic path
The vote of condolence from the President of the Assembly of the Republic states that Carlos Brito, who was born in Lourenço Marques, but lived in the Algarve since childhood, “he joined opposition movements early” against the regimeme from the Estado Novo, having joined the Democratic Unity Movement and, later, the PCP.
“Due to his activism, he endured political persecution, imprisonment and torture. He was imprisoned in Aljube, Peniche and Caxias, whose corridors he compared to the dark galleries of a mine. Having gone underground, he became an important operational leader of the party”, he emphasizes.
Then, it is highlighted that, after April 25, 1974, Carlos Brito was a constituent deputy and was part of the PCP bench between 1976 and 1991, “in decisive decades of democratic transition and national transformation”.
“He directed Avante! and was, in 1980, a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, having given up in favor of General [Ramalho] Eanes. In ideological tension with his party of origin, he founded, at the turn of the millennium, the political association Renovação Comunista, defending the convergence of the left”, it is also noted in the part relating to the political trajectory of the former parliamentary leader of the PCP.
José Pedro Aguiar-Branco’s vote, which will be voted on Friday, also highlights Carlos Brito’s work as a writer.
“Father of two daughters, he left us more than a dozen books, including political, memorialistic and poetic works. He received the Order of Infante D. Henrique and the Order of Freedom.”
