Abel Ximenes

Abel da Costa Freitas Ximenes (fighting name Abel Larisina or Abel Lari Sina , born April 30, 1950 in Atelari , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese freedom fighter and politician. Ximenes is a member of the Frenti-Mudança (FM) party.

Abel Ximenes

family

Ximenes was the younger of his parents' two sons. Abel Ximenes is married and the couple have three sons and a daughter.

Career

Ximenes is one of the founders of FRETILIN from 1974 and was a member of the Central Committee. In the fight for freedom against the Indonesian invaders, he was political commissar together with his adjutant Xanana Gusmão for the care of the refugees in the resistance base of the FALINTIL ( base de apoio ) on Matebian . In the middle of the year the situation worsened with the arrival of more refugees and in 1978 the base was overrun by the Indonesians on November 22nd after a two-week bombardment.

In independent East Timor, Ximenes became Deputy Minister for Development and Environment on March 6, 2003 under Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri , and from July 26, 2005 Minister for Development . When Alkatiri had to resign due to the unrest in East Timor in 2006 , Ximenes also lost his ministerial office on June 26, 2006. He now belonged to FRETILIN Mudança , an internal party reform movement that unsuccessfully directed itself against Alkatiri and party leader Francisco Guterres . In 2011 it was split off as Frenti-Mudança.

From August 14, 2009, Ximenes was commissioner in the newly founded Comissão da Função Pública (CFP, German  Commission of the Public Service ). He resigned from this position in February 2012 in order to be able to devote himself to the 2012 East Timor presidential elections . Here José Luís Guterres competed for the Frenti-Mudança . Ximenes' successor as commissioner was Abel dos Santos Fátima .

On August 8, 2012, the second government was sworn in by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão , the former adjutant of Ximenes in the battle for the Matebian. FM had been part of the governing coalition since 2007 and Ximenes has now become Vice Minister for Trade, Industry and the Environment .

In February 2015, Gusmão resigned on the grounds that he wanted to initiate a generation change. The opposition party FRETILIN, from which the new Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo comes, was included in the new government . The new cabinet was greatly reduced in size and on February 16, Ximenes became Vice Minister for Education II . When the VII government took office on September 15, 2017, his term in the cabinet ended. The FM was no longer represented in parliament after the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Abel Ximenes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Suara Timor Lorosae: Abel da Costa Freitas Ximenes, “Tinan 40 Aktivu iha Mundu Politika” , February 18, 2014 , accessed April 24, 2016.
2. ↑ Timor: Discurso de Xanana Gusmão ao Povo Amado e Sofredor e aos Líderes e Membros da FRETILIN , June 23, 2006 , accessed on April 24, 2016.
3. ↑ "Chapter 7.3 Forced Displacement and Famine" ( Memento of November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB) from the "Chega!" Report of the CAVR (English)
4. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: I Constitutional Government (English)
5. ↑ Centru Journalista Investigativu Timor Leste: Abel de Fatima troka Abel Ximenes iha KFP , accessed on February 15, 2016.
6. ↑ Comissão da Função Pública: Breve Historia da CFP ( Memento of June 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 24, 2016.
7. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: Structure of the V Constitutional Government , accessed March 9, 2014
8. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: Structure of the VI Constitutional Government , accessed on February 19, 2015 (English)