António Aires Rodrigues
Personal details
Born
António Jorge Oliveira Aires Rodrigues

(1945-08-21) August 21, 1945
Alfarelos, Soure, Portugal
Alma mater
  • University of Lisbon Law School
  • Sá da Bandeira High School
OccupationPolitical, revolutionary

António Jorge Oliveira Aires Rodrigues is a Portuguese militant worker and politician born in Alfarelos on 21 August 1945.[1]

During May 68, he lived in exile in Paris, where he was a worker at the Renault factory, having taken part in the uprising and the occupation of the House of Portugal together with Fernando Pereira Marques and Vasco de Castro.[2]

A member of the PS party in 1974, he was a member of the Constituent Assembly elected by Leiria.[3][4]

In 1977, breaking with Mário Soares's Political Commission, he was expelled from the PS party, becoming an independent legislator.[5]

He founded the Workers' Party of Socialist Unity (POUS) with Carmelinda Pereira,[6] of trotskyist and lambertist inspiration.

In the 1980 Portuguese presidential election he was the POUS party candidate for President of Portugal,[7] obtaining a total of 12,745 votes.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Biografia de Aires Rodrigues. RTP Arquivos. 7 December 1980. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Maio de 68 no Museu do Aljube". Expresso. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Os nossos constituintes". Jornal de Leiria. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  4. ↑ "Deputados Constituintes". Debates Parlamentares. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. ↑ "Biografia - António Aires Rodrigues". Assembleia da República. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Carmelinda Pereira do POUS: "Não vamos desaparecer"". 31 August 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  7. ↑ Aires Rodrigues em campanha eleitoral. RTP Arquivo. 25 November 1980. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  8. ↑ "CNE Resultados Eleitorais". eleicoes.cne.pt. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
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