Óscar Monteiro

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José Óscar Monteiro (born December 28, 1941 in Lourenço Marques , Portuguese East Africa ) is a Mozambican lawyer and politician ( FRELIMO ).

Life

education

Óscar Monteiro was born in 1941 in the capital of the Portuguese colony Portuguese East Africa, Lourenço Marques, as the son of Portuguese Goose parents. After graduating from school, he moved to Coimbra University in 1958 to study law. There he also regularly visited the Casa dos Estudantes do Império , which developed into a core of student resistance against the Portuguese colonial regime in the 1960s.

Resistance in the underground

In 1963 he joined the Mozambican liberation front FRELIMO and founded its secret offshoot in the motherland of the colonial power Portugal . He received his training for Frelimo in Algeria and southern Tanzania, later he was a representative of Frelimo in Algeria and also in southern Europe. Among other things, he organized an audience with Pope Paul VI. At the human rights conference in Geneva, he campaigned for the prisoner-of-war status of captured African freedom fighters. Monteiro was involved in the creation of the Lusaka Treaties .

After independence

After the collapse of the colonial regime as a result of the Carnation Revolution , it was the aim of the Portuguese interim government to give the colonies their independence as quickly as possible. In the course of this, it had a transitional government in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), to which Monteiro also belonged. He later held various ministerial posts and is still an advisor to government offices.

As a lawyer, he taught law at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and is visiting professor in the Faculty of Commercial Law and Management at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg . He was Special Advisor to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Peace Process in Mozambique, a member of the steering committee for the first two "National Human Development Reports" Mozambique (1999–2000) and a member of the steering committee for the first regional report on the development of Southern Africa ( 2000-2001).

Criticism of the FRELIMO

Although Monteiro is still a member of FRELIMO, which has ruled since 1975, the latter repeatedly criticized the party's abundance of power. After the parliamentary elections in 2009 , Monteiro expressed his displeasure with what he believed to be "too high a result" for FRELIMO in the elections and his desire for a strong opposition - the party had a 74.6 percent majority in the Assembleia da República won. In 2015, he complained that his party had strayed far from its original ideals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of José Óscar Monteiro
  2. ↑ a b c d e Marta Barroso: “A liberdade faz-se com o coração”, diz Óscar Monteiro. Deutsche Welle, June 25, 2014, accessed August 16, 2015 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Profiles of the Members of the Committee 2002-2005. UN Public Administration Program, accessed November 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Teresa Cotrim / Pedro Curto: Entrevista a Óscar Monteiro. Sapo.pt, April 29, 2009, accessed August 16, 2015 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ "Afastámo-nos dos objetivos" - Histórico da Frelimo Óscar Monteiro. Sapo.pt, June 3, 2015, accessed August 16, 2015 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Monteiro, Óscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques