António Simões de Abreu

Who is António Simões de Abreu?

António Simões de Abreu, known simply by António Abreu is a Portuguese engineer and politician.

De Abreu's Quemical Engineer by Technical Superior Institute and made several post-graduations in management fields. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969. From 1969 to 1973 he was an active member of the democratic opposition to the Fascist regime of Marcello Caetano, participating in CDE as activist and candidate. He was elected twice as leader of the student association and was persecuted by the political police PIDE. The persecution of the political police took him into underground as a Party permanent After the Carnation Revolution, in 1974, he developed his political work inside the Union of Communist Students, one of the party's youth organizations at the time. After that he became responsible for the Intellectual sector of the Party and for several local organizations in the Porto district since the Revolution until 1978. After that he was responsible for several party organizations, such as Intellectual Sector, in Lisbon.