António Garcia Pereira
António Pestana Garcia Pereira is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, former leader of the Maoist PCTP/MRPP. He was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election,[1] where he placed sixth (and last) with 0.44 per cent of the vote.[2] He had already run in the 2001 presidential election, getting 1.69 per cent of the vote.
Election results
2001 Portuguese presidential election
| Candidates | Supporting parties | First round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |||
| Jorge Sampaio | Socialist Party | 2,401,015 | 55.55 | |
| Ferreira do Amaral | Social Democratic Party, People's Party | 1,498,948 | 34.68 | |
| António Abreu | Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens" | 223,196 | 5.16 | |
| Fernando Rosas | Left Bloc | 129,840 | 3.00 | |
| António Garcia Pereira | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 68,900 | 1.59 | |
| Total valid | 4,321,899 | 100.00 | ||
| Blank ballots | 82,391 | 1.85 | ||
| Invalid ballots | 45,510 | 1.02 | ||
| Total (turnout 49.71%) | 4,449,800 | |||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições | ||||
2006 Portuguese presidential election
| Candidates | Supporting parties | First round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |||
| Aníbal Cavaco Silva | Social Democratic Party, People's Party | 2,773,431 | 50.54 | |
| Manuel Alegre | Independent | 1,138,297 | 20.74 | |
| Mário Soares | Socialist Party | 785,355 | 14.31 | |
| Jerónimo de Sousa | Portuguese Communist Party, Ecologist Party "The Greens" | 474,083 | 8.64 | |
| Francisco Louçã | Left Bloc | 292,198 | 5.32 | |
| António Garcia Pereira | Portuguese Workers' Communist Party | 23,983 | 0.44 | |
| Total valid | 5,487,347 | 100.00 | ||
| Blank ballots | 59,636 | 1.07 | ||
| Invalid ballots | 43,149 | 0.77 | ||
| Total (turnout 61.53%) | 5,590,132 | |||
| Source: Comissão Nacional de Eleições | ||||
References
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