Edgar Silva

Edgar Freitas Gomes da Silva is a Portuguese politician and former Catholic Catholic Church|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.
He was a candidate to the 2016 Portuguese [presidential election|2016 presidential election].

Works

Among his published books, there can be found works on social and human development issues such as:

Os instrangeiros na Madeira. Funchal: Edgar Silva, 2005..
Madeira, tempo perdido. Funchal: Edgar Silva, 2007..
Os bichos da Corte do Ogre usam máscaras de riso. 2010.
Silva, Edgar; Vilarigues, Sofia. Pontes de Mudança, sociedades sustentáveis e solidárias. Funchal: Antagonista..