Zita Seabra
Zita Maria de Seabra Roseiro (born May 25, 1949 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese politician .
Zita Seabra joined the Partido Comunista Português (PCP) in 1966 . Before and after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 she was a member of the Communist Student Union UEC (Portuguese: União dos Estudantes Comunistas ). She was elected to the Portuguese Parliament for Lisbon and Aveiro between 1980 and 1987 . At the 10th Congress of the party in 1983 she was elected to the Political Commission of the PCP. In 1982 she was responsible for presenting the legislation on abortion in parliament, and she was commissioned by the PCP to found the ecological party "The Greens" (PEV (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "OS Verdes" )).
She left the PCP before the fall of the communist regime and is the party's best-known dissident . In 1988 she was expelled from the Political Commission and the Party's Central Committee. In the same year she published the book The Name of Things: reflexion in times of change with seven editions up to 1989. In 1989 she reported for the Expresso newspaper on the first free elections in the Soviet Union.
Zita Seabra joined the Partido Social Democrata and was elected to parliament for Coimbra in 2005 . She also works as an editor and publisher, and founded the Alêtheia Editores publishing house .
Books
- 1988: The Name of Things: reflexion in times of change ( O nome das coisas )
- 2007: Foi Assim
Web links
- Short biography of Zita Seabra at the Assembleia da República (Portuguese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seabra, Zita |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roseiro, Zita Maria de Seabra (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Coimbra |