Jerónimo Carvalho de Sousa

- Metalworker (MEC factory). Fifty-nine (59) years old.
- Born in Santa Iria de Azóia (Loures municipality, Portugal).
- Completed the fourth year of the Industrial Course.
- Is married, with two daughters.
- Has been a PCP member since 1974.
- Elected to the PCP Central Committee at the Ninth Congress (1979).
- Has been a member of the PCP’s Political Committee since the Fourteenth Congress (1992).
- Began his anti-fascist youth activity as a leader of the Primeiro de Agosto Collective in Santa Iria de Azóia. Was member of various culture and theater groups throughout the 1960s, when he established his first contacts with the PCP. Between 1969 and 1971 he completed his military service in the Lanceiros 2 Regiment and in Guinea-Bissau.
- In 1972 was elected by the MEC factory workers as a delegate in the broad unity slate that ran in – and won - the 1973 elections for the leadership of the Lisbon Metalworkers’ Trade Union, thereby placing this Union in the hands of the workers. In 1992 he was again re-elected to the Trade Union’s central leadership.
- In April 1974 was a elected to the MEC factory Workers’ Council, having been successively re-elected until 1995.
- In 1975 took an active part in the Lisbon District’s movement of Workers’ Councils, having been the Coordinator of the Coordinating Committee of the Workers’ Councils of the Lisbon Region (CIL).
- Elected as a Member of the country’s Constituent Assembly in 1975, and elected as member of Parliament in 1976, was successively elected and served until 1993.
- Was Deputy Chairperson of the PCP’s Parliamentary Group and Deputy Chairperson of the parliamentary Committee for Labour, Social Security and the Family.
- Ran for President of the Republic, as a PCP candidate, in 1996 and 2006.
- Is a Member of Parliament.
- Is the PCP’s General Secretary since the 17th Congress (2004).