Ana Pessoa Pinto

Ana Maria Pessoa Pereira da Silva Pinto

Ana Maria Pessoa Pereira da Silva Pinto (born January 5, 1956 in Bobonaro , Portuguese Timor ) is a lawyer and politician from East Timor .

Career

Pessoa studied law during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo ( Mozambique ). She graduated in January 1981. From 1980 she was a provincial prosecutor at the People's Court of Maputo Province and from September 1981 to October 1989 a judge for civil law and minor offenders there. She then worked as an academic lawyer in the Ministry of Justice of Mozambique, where she was the national director for investigation and legislation from 1990 to 2000.

At the end of 1999 she was a member of the World Bank's Joint Recognition Mission for Justice in East Timor. In the first interim government of East Timor under the United Nations , Pessoa became Minister for Internal Administration on July 12, 2000. Since her by the elections to the Constituent Assembly on 30 August 2001 wanted to compete Pessoa came on July 15 at the beginning of the election campaign back from office. At number 4 on the list she moved into the assembly for FRETILIN , but then switched to the second interim government as Minister of Justice on September 20 . She then kept the office in the first government until March 4, 2003. On March 6, she was sworn in as Minister for the Council of Ministers and on July 26, 2005 she was given the state administration department, which she held until August 8, 2007 held. After the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007 , Arcângelo Leite succeeded her in this office, while Pessoa returned to the national parliament as a member of FRETILIN .

During the 2007 presidential election there were several irregularities in the first round of voting. Fernando de Araújo , the Partido Democrático's presidential candidate who had surprisingly resigned, accused three members of the FRETILIN government of having been involved in the irregularities. The police found 350 blank ballot papers in the car in Pessoa, but the incident was covered up.

On March 27, 2009, Pessoa became the new attorney general , replacing Longuinhos Monteiro , who became the new chief of police. In advance, Pessoa announced her membership in FRETILIN and its party executive. Pessoa's tenure as Attorney General ended on March 27, 2013. On April 15, José da Costa Ximenes was sworn in as her successor.

Pessoa was head of the Casa Civil of the President Francisco Guterres (as of 2018) before she was replaced by Francisco Maria de Vasconcelos .

Others

Pessoa is divorced from the politician José Ramos-Horta . The two had a son named Loro in 1977 .

On May 19, 2012, Pessoa was awarded the Collar des Ordem de Timor-Leste .

Web links

Commons : Ana Pessoa Pinto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ana Pessoa Pinto's MP website ( 29 October 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ministério Público: Procuradores-Gerais anteriores ANA PESSOA , accessed on May 14, 2020.
2. ^ ETAN, July 15, 2002, Letter from East Timor
3. ↑ UN.org: Timor Sea arrangement approved by East Timor Cabinet July 3, 2001 , accessed June 27, 2016.
4. ^ ETAN: List of elected representatives, September 9, 2001 , accessed on April 27, 2020.
5. ^ The West, April 14, 2007, More claims of East Timor vote rigging ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Suara Timor Lorosae, March 3, 2009, Politicians speak recklessly: Monteiro
7. ^ East Timor Legal News, March 18, 2009, Ana Pessoa has asked to resign from Fretilin
8. ^ Press release by the President of East Timor on April 11, 2013
9. ↑ Tatoli: KSDS Hahu Diskute Seguransa Nasional , accessed on May 28, 2018.
10. ↑ Jornal da República: DECRETO PRESIDENTE 46/2012 , May 19, 2012 , accessed on April 29, 2020.