Carlos Luís Figueira, who was the director of the Algarve Regional Organization of the PCP for 20 years, died this morning, aged 80, in Menorca, a Balearic island (Spain), where he lived.
The former communist militant had been suffering from cancer for several years.
Carlos Luís Figueira was born in Campo Maior in October 1944. He settled in Brussels, where he was granted political refugee status. During his stay in this country, he joined the PCP.
He studied Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Brussels and later at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences in Moscow.
He returned clandestinely to Portugal, as a member of the PCP, in August 1968, a position he remained in until 25 April 1974. He was a member of the Central Committee and the Political Commission of the PCP until the XNUMXth Congress.
In the 80s and 90s, he was a leader of the communists' DORAL in the Algarve.
He was expelled from the Communist Party in 2002, in a process that also involved Edgar Correia and Carlos Brito, as members of the Communist Renewal movement.
At the time, with Carlos Carvalhas still leading the PCP and Álvaro Cunhal as the communist president, an internal wave called for greater internal democracy and more openness within the party. However, the leadership did not look favorably on this initiative, and ended up expelling some of the party's historic members, including Carlos Luís Figueira and Edgar Correia, and penalizing others, such as João Amaral, Domingos Lopes, Paulo Fidalgo, Cipriano Justo and Carlos Brito, who ended up leaving the PCP.
Carlos Luís Figueiras was also a business consultant, a regular columnist in the regional and national press, and director of the monthly Jornal do Baixo Guadiana.
In 2005, the former communist militant became chief of staff of the mayor of Vila Real de Santo António, Luís Gomes, of the PSD.
On the social network Facebook, António Pina, who was civil governor of Faro between April 5, 2005 and June 1, 2007, he mourned the death of “a friend and fighter”.
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