António Jorge Oliveira Aires Rodrigues is a Portuguese militant worker and politician born in Alfarelos on 21 August 1945.
[1] During May 68, he lived in exile in Paris, where he was a worker at the Renault factory, having taken part in the uprising and the occupation of the House of Portugal together with Fernando Pereira Marques and Vasco de Castro.
[3][4] In 1977, breaking with Mário Soares's Political Commission, he was expelled from the PS party, becoming an independent legislator.
[5] He founded the Workers' Party of Socialist Unity (POUS) with Carmelinda Pereira,[6] of trotskyist and lambertist inspiration.
In the 1980 Portuguese presidential election he was the POUS party candidate for President of Portugal,[7] obtaining a total of 12,745 votes.