Constância de Jesus

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Constância de Jesus is a politician from East Timor . She is a member of FRETILIN .

In her home village in Cova Lima, Jesus campaigned early on in FRETILIN and in the resistance against the Indonesian occupation.

In the 2001 elections, Jesus was elected to the Constituent Assembly at number 43 on the FRETILIN list, which became the National Parliament of East Timor when it was granted independence on May 20, 2002 . In Parliament, Jesus was a member of Commission F (Commission for Health, Social Affairs, Solidarity and Labor). She had difficulties with documents written in Portuguese because she did not speak the language. Therefore, she took part in the language courses for parliamentarians.

During the last wave of violence by the Indonesian occupiers in 1999, Jesus, like many other East Timorese, lost most of their property when their home was burned down. In 2002 she was still living with her family in a roofless hut, even though she was a member of parliament. During the 2006 riots in East Timor , Manuel Amaral, Jesus' brother, was one of eight police officers who were killed in a gun battle with the rebelling soldiers on May 25th.

In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2007 , Jesus was in FRETILIN's 40th place on the list, but the party only received 21 seats in the reduced parliament. At that time Jesus was a member of the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF). In 2012 , Jesus stopped running.

Later, Jesus was director of the social communication department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e (UNTL).

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irena Cristalis: East Timor: A Nation's Bitter Dawn , accessed July 17, 2020.
  2. ↑ Electoral lists of all parties and list of independent candidates, August 2001 , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  3. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Comissão F , accessed on July 17, 2020.
  4. ^ List from the STAE with the candidates for the parliamentary elections 2007 (PDF file; 819 kB).
  5. ^ East Timor News Digest No 4 - April 1-30, 2007: Ministries support Lu-Olo's campaign , accessed July 17, 2020.
  6. ^ Election lists for the 2012 parliamentary elections
  7. ↑ Tatoli: KomSos UNTL Komemora Liberdade Imprensa , May 2, 2017 , accessed on July 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Jesus, Constância de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century