Dulce Soares

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Dulce Soares (2019)

Dulce de Jesus Soares is an East Timorese politician. She is a member of the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) party. From 2015 to 2017 Soares was first vice minister for education. From 2018 to 2020 she was Minister for Education, Youth and Sport .

Career

In the independent East Timor, Soares initially worked as a project manager for UNICEF .

From August 8, 2012 to February 16, 2015, Soares was Deputy Minister for Basic Education under Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão in the country's fifth government . With the government reshuffle under Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo , Soares became the first female vice minister for education. When Education Minister Fernando de Araújo died unexpectedly on June 2, 2015, Soares led the ministry on an interim basis until the new Minister of Education António da Conceição was sworn in . When the VII government took office on September 15, 2017, her term in the cabinet ended.

In 2018 the parliament was dissolved. In the early elections , the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), to which the CNRT also belongs, won an absolute majority in parliament. On June 22, 2018, Soares was sworn in as Minister of Education, Youth and Sport.

Following the breakup of AMP 2020, members of the government of the CNRT were asked to resign from the government. Soares followed suit on May 25th.

Web links

Commons : Dulce Soares  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vandra Harris, Andrew Goldsmith: Security, Development and Nation-Building in Timor-Leste: A Cross-sectoral Assessment , p. 51, 2012 , accessed May 9, 2015.
  2. ^ East Timorese Government website: Structure of the V Constitutional Government , accessed March 9, 2014
  3. ^ Website of the government of East Timor: Structure of the VI Constitutional Government , accessed on February 19, 2015 (English)
  4. ^ Government of Timor-Leste: Prime Minister underlines the importance of Education in the development of Timor-Leste , July 15, 2015 , accessed on July 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Election lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections
  6. ↑ SAPO: Primeiro grupo de membros do VIII Governo timorense tomou posse em Díli , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ Tatoli: Foreign Minister Dionísio Soares Among Five MPs to Resign From Cabinet , May 25, 2020 , accessed May 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Soares, Dulce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soares, Dulce de Jesus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century