Paulo Raimundo was unanimously elected this Sunday as the new secretary general of the Communist Party of Portugal (PCP) with a view to a tough opposition to the Socialist Party government.
«The Central Committee has elected Paulo Raimundo as general secretary of the PCP. The proposal has been approved unanimously. Comrade Paulo Raimundo abstained», explained the spokeswoman of the Secretariat of the Communist Central Committee, Margarida Botelho, quoted by the ‘Diário de Notícias’.
Raimundo, 46 years old, thus replaces Jerónimo de Sousa after 18 years in office and becomes the fourth secretary general of the PCP since the return of democracy to Portugal.
Raimundo will thus be on the Central Committee, the Political Commission and the Secretariat of the PCP. He has been described as a «worker» of the party with great presence in the formation, although less known at the media level. He was born in Cascais in 1976, became a member in 1994 and was appointed member of the Central Committee two years later.
