António Garcia Pereira

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.

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