Zita Seabra

Zita Maria de Seabra Roseiro ( born May 25, 1949 in Coimbra ) is a Portuguese politician.

Zita Seabra joined in 1966 the Partido Comunista Português ( PCP). She was before and after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 a member of the Communist Student Association UEC ( Portuguese: União dos Estudantes Comunistas ). She was elected to the Portuguese Parliament in Lisbon and Aveiro 1980-1987. At the 10th Congress of the Party in 1983 she was elected to the Political Committee of the PCP. In 1982, she was responsible for the presentation of the legislation on abortion in Parliament, also it has been instructed by the PCP, the Ecological Party "The Greens " ( PEV ( Portuguese: Parido Ecologista "OS Verdes " ) ) to start.

She left the PCP before the fall of the communist regime and is the best-known dissident of the party. In 1988, she was excluded from the Policy Committee and the Central Committee of the Party. In the same year she published the book The Name of Things:. Reflection in times of change with seven editions by the year 1989 1989, she reported for the newspaper Expresso on the first free elections in the Soviet Union.

Zita Seabra joined the Partido Social Democrata and was elected to Parliament for Coimbra, 2005. She has also worked as editor and publisher, and founded the publishing Aletheia Editores.