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Edgar Silva
Portuguese politician
Edgar Freitas Gomes da Silva (born 25 September 1962) is a Portuguese politician and former Catholic priest. He is known for having been a bitter dissident from the Portuguese Catholic hierarchy.
Edgar Silva is a licenciate in Theology and holds a master's degree in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of Portugal. He has been a militant of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1997, and also a member of its Central Committee since 10 December 2000.[1][2]
He was a candidate to the 2016 presidential election.[1][2]