Pedro was born in the
freguesia of
Samouco in the municipality of
Alcochete, Portugal, on 8 November 1918. In 1934, Pedro, who was 15-years old, was arrested for the first time for participating in a
general strike. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) later in the 1930s, where he met the party's leader, Álvaro Cunhal. In 1936, Edmundo Pedro was arrested again and sent to the
Tarrafal prison camp in
Cape Verde alongside his father, Gabriel Pedro, another opponent of the Salazar government. In 1945, while still in prison, Pedro broke with the PCP and left the party. He was released from Tarrafal in 1946 and returned to
mainland Portugal. In 1973, Edmundo Pedro became one of the co-founders of the
Socialist Party (PS) alongside
Mário Soares. Following the Carnation Revolution, Pedro became an elected deputy in the national
Assembly of the Republic. He simultaneously served as the president of
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), the national public service broadcaster, from 1977 until 1978. In January 2018, Pedro was hospitalized for approximately two weeks. He died in
Lisbon, Portugal, on 27 January 2018, at the age of 99. ==References==