Domingos Abrantes
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His Excellency Domingos Abrantes | |
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.jpg) Domingos Abrantes in 1980 | |
| Member of the Council of State | |
| Assumed office 12 January 2016 | |
| Appointed by | Assembly of the Republic |
| President | Aníbal Cavaco Silva Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa |
| Member of the Assembly of the Republic Elections: 1976, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991 | |
| In office 4 November 1991 – 26 October 1995 | |
| Constituency | Lisbon |
| In office 3 June 1976 – 3 November 1991 | |
| Constituency | Setúbal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Domingos Abrantes Ferreira 19 January 1936 |
| Party | Portuguese Communist Party (1954-present) |
| Domestic partner | Conceição Matos (1963-present) |
Domingos Abrantes Ferreira (born 19 January 1936),[1] generally known as Domingos Abrantes, is a Portuguese Communist politician. He has been a member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1954, and was a member of its Central Committee between 1963 and 2012.
Domingos Abrantes was also a political prisoner during the Estado Novo dictatorship. He was arrested for the first time in 1959, and in 1961 took part in the famed escape from Caxias prison. He was again arrested in 1965, being released only in 1973.[2]
After the Carnation Revolution he was elected member of the Assembly of the Republic for the first time in 1976, retiring from the legislature in 1995. He served as member of the Portuguese Council of State from 2016 to 2022.
Domingos Abrantes Ferreira was born on 19 January 1936 in Vila Franca de Xira in Lisbon, Portugal which was then under Estado Novo regime. His family moved early on in his life to Poço do Bispo, another part of Lisbon, where he grew up with his four brothers. His family was a poor working-class family. In his childhood, the environment he grew up in was anti-fascist.[3]
At age eleven, he began working in a factory in Poço do Bispo. Although from a working-class family, one of his teachers said Abrantes should continue his education.[3]