Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral

Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral (2019)

Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral is an East Timorese politician . She is a member of the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) party.

On June 22, 2018, she was sworn in as the first female vice minister for health. Second Vice Minister is Bonifácio dos Reis . Sérgio Lobo , proposed by Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak for the Eighth Government of East Timor, has so far been refused appointment by President Francisco Guterres , which is why Amaral led the ministry .

Amaral had been criticized since the beginning of the crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in East Timor . Several times she got into arguments with journalists at press conferences. After two different statements about the number of suspected cases in East Timor were published in two consecutive press conferences on April 2, 2020, President Francisco Guterres sacked Amaral the following day at the request of Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak .

Web links

Commons : Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ministry of Health of East Timor (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 23, 2018.
2. ^ Government of East Timor: Structure of the VIII Constitutional Government , accessed July 11, 2018.
3. ↑ LUSA: Covid-19: Presidente timorense exonera ministra interina da Saúde ATUALIZADA , April 3, 2020 , accessed on April 3, 2020.