Garcia Pereira
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António Pestana Garcia Pereira is a Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 lawyer and politician, and the current leader of the maoist PCTP/MRPP
Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers - Reorganizative Movement of the Party of the Proletariat
The Portuguese Workers' Communist Party/Reorganized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat is a Maoist political party founded in 1970 in Portugal...

. He was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election
Portuguese presidential election, 2006
The Portuguese presidential election were held on 22 January 2006 to elect a successor to the incumbent President Jorge Sampaio, who was term-limited from running for a third consecutive term by the Constitution of Portugal...

, where placed sixth and last with 0.44 per cent of the vote. He had already ran in the 2001 presidential election
Portuguese presidential election, 2001
The Portuguese presidential election of 2001 was held on January 12.The victory of incumbent president Jorge Branco de Sampaio was never in doubt and the turnout was therefore quite low...

, getting 1.69 per cent of the vote.
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