Ágio Pereira

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Ágio Pereira

Hermenegildo Augusto "Ágio" Cabral Pereira Alves (known as Agio Pereira ) is an East Timorese politician. He is a member of the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) party. From 2007 to 2020, Pereira was represented in the cabinet of all governments .

Life

During the first years of the Indonesian occupation (1975-1999), Pereira lived in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon . He studied music and worked as a civil servant. In 1980 Pereira emigrated to Australia and headed the FRETILIN committee in Darwin . From 1991 to 1999 he was Executive Director of the international humanitarian organization East Timor Relief Association Incorporated INC. (ETRA), which, with its headquarters in Sydney, campaigned for the independence of East Timor and provided humanitarian aid. For years he led the musical group 28 de novembro and edited the newspaper Matebian News .

Pereira returned to East Timor in July 1999, a month before the independence referendum . In the Partido Social Democrata (PSD), a center-right party founded in September 2000 , Pereira became vice chairman. In the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense (CNRT), the umbrella organization of the East Timorese independence movement, he was the PSD representative and head of the national emergency commission from 1999 to 2001. From 1999 to 2000, Pereira headed the National Emergency Commission, which looked after the people in need after the wave of violence by the militias . From 2000 to 2001 he was a member of the National Consultative Council (NCC) and its successor, the National Council (NC), which represented the people of East Timor in the UN administration . Here Pereira became the deputy spokesman, chairman of the Standing Committee on Budget and Finance, and Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee on Political Affairs.

From 2002 to 2007 Pereira was Chief of Staff of the then Presidents Xanana Gusmão and José Ramos-Horta until Pereira was sworn in as State Secretary for the Council of Ministers and government spokesman on August 8, 2007. On August 8, 2012, Prime Minister Gusmão's second term was followed by promotion to Minister for the Council of Ministers in the fifth government . After Gusmão resigned prematurely, Pereira was sworn in under the new Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo on February 16, 2015 as Minister of State and Minister of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers. In this office he acted as government spokesman.

After the 2017 parliamentary elections , the CNRT went into opposition and Pereira left his ministerial post to Adriano do Nascimento . On September 29, 2017, members of the opposition were also admitted to the government and Pereira was the Prime Minister's deputy for the definition of the maritime borders ( Portuguese Adjunto do primeiro-ministro para a Delimitação das Fronteiras Marítimas ). In the meantime, Pereira was promoted to party chairman of the CNRT. In 2018 there were early elections and the CNRT became part of the governing coalition again. In the new government, Pereira was again Minister of State and Minister of the Council of Ministers.

Following the breakup of AMP 2020, members of the CNRT government were asked to resign from their posts. Due to a planned reorganization of the government, Pereira was released on May 25, the same day that CNRT members submitted their resignation.

Others

Pereira lives in Dili's Fatuhada district . He has been married since 2009.

He is trained as an environmental biologist and has a master's degree in criminology and criminal justice.

For the British film documentary " Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy " from 1994 Pereira contributed the music.

Web links

Commons : Ágio Pereira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sapo: Lista do V Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste , August 6, 2012 , accessed on January 16, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Website of the government of Timor-Leste: The Fourth Constitutional Government of East Timor
  3. ↑ a b Foreignpolicy.com - Timor-Leste now: Resilience Pays Off , 2012 ( Memento of November 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Lusa: Decisão do CNRT implica saída de Agio Pereira, veterano da governação em Timor-Leste , 23 May 2020 , accessed on 24 May 2020.
  5. ↑ allacademic.com
  6. ↑ a b c d e Ágio Pereira: Civil-Military Workingpapers 10/2010: Timor-Leste: Transition from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding - a Timorese Perspective , Australian Government ( Memento of May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 16 2014.
  7. ↑ Pat Walsh : East Timor's Political Parties and Groupings Briefing Notes , Australian Council for Overseas Aid 2001 ( Memento from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English; MS Word ; 174 kB)
  8. ↑ Journal daRepública: Decree of the President 54/2007 , accessed on September 29, 2017.
  9. ↑ THE FOURTH CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT OF EAST TIMOR
  10. ↑ Sydney Morning Herald: Xanana Gusmao to quit as leader of East Timor , January 15, 2014 , accessed January 15, 2014
  11. ↑ Website of the government of East Timor: Members of the incoming Sixth Constitutional Government meet , February 12, 2015 , accessed on February 16, 2015 (English)
  12. ↑ Diário de Notícias: CORREÇÃO: Anunciados novos membros do Governo timorense, mas executivo ainda incompleto , September 29, 2017 , accessed on October 1, 2017.
  13. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 23, 2018.
  14. ↑ Tatoli: Foreign Minister Dionísio Soares Among Five MPs to Resign From Cabinet , May 25, 2020 , accessed May 26, 2020.
  15. ↑ Lusa: Presidente timorense promulga nova orgânica do Governo que exonera dois ministros , May 25, 2020 , accessed on May 25, 2020.
  16. ↑ Agio Pereira's Facebook account
  17. ↑ Ágio Pereira in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Pereira, Ágio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereira, agio; Hermenegildo Augusto Cabral Pereira, Hermenegildo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century