Zita Seabra
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Zita Seabra (born 1949) is a Portuguese politician. She joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1966, even before she was eighteen years old and was controller of the UEC (in Portuguese: União dos Estudantes Comunistas - Union of Communist Students) before and after the carnation revolution. She was elected to the Portuguese parliament between 1980 and 1987 for Lisbon and Aveiro and was elected for the Political Commission of the PCP in 1983, in the 10th congress of the party. In 1982 she was responsible for the presentation in the parliament of legislation concerning abortion and was assigned by the PCP to create the PEV (in Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" - Ecological Party "The Greens").
She left the PCP before the fall of the communist regimes and is the best known dissident from the party, because of the judgement made to her which resulted in her expulsion in 1988, first from the Political Commission, and then from the Central Committee of the party. Still in 1988 she published the book The Name of Things: reflexion in times of change which had seven editions until the following year. In 1989 she covered for the newspaper Expresso the first free elections in the USSR.
After leaving the communist ideology she joined the Social Democratic Party and coordained the National Bureau for Audiovisual in 1993, when she also became the president of the Portuguese Institute of Cinema. From 1994 to 1995 she was the president of the Portuguese Institute of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Arts. She was also editor in Quetzal, administrator and editorial director of Bertrand and is now the president of the Administration Council and director of Alêtheia, which she also founded. She was elected to the parliament for Coimbra in 2005 and is vice-president of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party.
[edit] Books
- O Nome das Coisas(The Name of Things) (1989)
- Foi Assim (2007)
