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Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa ((:ʒɨˈɾɔnimu dɨ ˈsozɐ); born 13 April 1947) is a Portuguese politician who has been General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party since the 17th Congress of the Party in November 2004. He is a member of the Assembly of the Republic and was also a candidate in the 2006 presidential election. ==Early life and leftist activity== Born in Santa Iria de Azóia, Loures, Lisbon District, Jerónimo de Sousa was born into a humble working-class family, dominated by the right-leaning regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. At the age of 14, he followed the path of most of the children of the working-class families grewing-up in the industrial belt of Lisbon. He became a machine tuner in a siderurgy near his hometown. He started his anti-fascist activities soon after, while integrating the cultural working class associations of his hometown in the 1960s. In that period he made contact with the strong clandestine organization that the Portuguese Communist Party had in the suburbs of Lisbon, where he, being one of the few able to read, used to read the illegal communist newspaper Avante!, in secrecy, for the other workers. He would later formalize his membership, right after the Carnation Revolution, in 1974. From 1969 to 1971 Jerónimo de Sousa participated in the Colonial War against the liberation movements that were struggling in the Portuguese colonies in Africa. He served in Guinea-Bissau, forced to fight the Marxist movement of liberation, the PAIGC. After the replacement of Salazar by Marcello Caetano in 1969, the regime made some slight democratic openings, one of them was the possibility of workers without any record of illegal political activity participate in the elections for the respective Unions. In 1973 he participated in the election for the leadership of the Lisbon Metallurgical Workers' Union, dominated by the collaborationists of the regime, a characteristic of the corporativist regime of Salazar. Being free of any political suspicion and after being chosen among the MEC workers to integrate the list to the Lisbon Union, he was able to participate in the election and his list, influenced in secrecy by the communists, won it. From April 1974 he was elected to the workers commission of MEC, a role he kept until 1995. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerónimo de Sousa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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