Emília Pires

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Emília Pires (2007)

Emília Maria Valeria Pires (* 1961 (?) In Rairobo , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese politician. She does not belong to any party.

From August 8, 2007 to February 16, 2015, she was Minister of Planning and Finance in the government under Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão . From 2010 to 2016 she was chairwoman of the g7 + states .

Life

Pires grew up on the land of the Portuguese Timor colony . She was 14 years old when the civil war broke out in 1975 . Her family was evacuated to Australia on board a Norwegian freighter . The family lived in Melbourne for the following years . Pires graduated from La Trobe University with a degree in mathematics and then became a PhD student in public law in Melbourne. At 22, she became a civil servant in the Victoria government .

In 1999 the United Nations took over the administration of East Timor after 24 years of Indonesian occupation. Pires prepared the Timorese National Development Plan on behalf of the UN . She then worked as an advisor to the World Bank at the Palestinian Authority . At the same time, she was able to complete her Masters at the London School of Economics in 2004 . She later became chief advisor to UNMISET at the East Timorese Ministry of Finance , head of the secretariat of the UNTAET planning commission and head of the national development and planning authority. Before becoming Minister of Finance in 2007, she was UNMIT's Senior Coordination Advisor on the International Compact to the DSRSG in East Timor.

In 2009, the opposition party FRETILIN raised allegations of corruption against the government and especially against Finance Minister Pires. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão and Pires rejected them. There are no documents that support such a suspicion. Pires explained that there was only corruption that arose under the previous FRETILIN government. The parliament then set up an anti-corruption commission . Since then, the CAC has been investigating allegations of corruption in administration and politics.

From April 2010 to 2016, Pires was chairman of the g7 + states. In May she came under public criticism. A representative of FRETILIN read an e-mail from Pires in a speech in front of parliament, in which she wrote to a friend in Australia during the unrest in East Timor in 2006 that if Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri remained in power, East Timor would be better off if it were integrated into Australia. FRETILIN now sees this as proof that Pires wants to sell the land.

In 2011, Prime Minister Xanana appointed Gusmão Pires as his deputy while he is on a business trip abroad from March 1st to 11th. The actual Deputy Prime Minister José Luís Guterres was accused of corruption at the time, but was later acquitted in a court hearing. On March 15, 2011, Pires and Gusmão founded the Timor-Leste Budget Transparency Portal , which provides an overview of government spending, promotes transparency and aims to reduce corruption. After the parliamentary elections in 2012 , Pires was sworn in again on August 8 as Minister of Finance for the Gusmãos government. In the government reshuffle in 2015, she was no longer taken into account and left the cabinet. She remained chairwoman of the g7 + states.

At the beginning of September 2011, corruption allegations were also raised against Pires. The prosecution started an investigation. According to the allegations, Mac's Metalcraft Pty Ltd. , which belongs to Pires' husband, delivered various furnishings to the Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares . The instruction to buy is said to have been given by Pires. The defense referred to an emergency situation due to the outbreak of dengue fever , which is why beds had to be bought quickly, for which there was only one provider. The then Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta had visited the hospital several times and reported on patients who had to be stored on the floor. Another witness said that the old beds were partly bugged and rusted. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão also testified in favor of Pires.

The then Deputy Minister of Health Madalena Hanjam is also involved in the allegations . The trial against the two politicians was planned for November 2014, but had to be canceled because parliament did not lift the politicians' immunity. The process has been running since October 2015. On October 24, 2016, Judge José Maria de Araújo of the Dili court ruled that Pires had to return to East Timor within five days and surrender her passport. At that time she was traveling abroad as a representative for East Timor. Another judge had lifted a previous travel ban, but limited it to October 19, since the final arguments in the trial against Pires were to take place on October 21. An application for an extension of the travel permit until November 1st from October 18th was rejected. Pires timed out, resulting in the judge's order.

However, Pires stayed in Portugal and instead requested a renegotiation there. She relied on her Portuguese citizenship, which she has alongside the East Timorese and Australian. In his absence, Pires was sentenced to seven years in prison in East Timor.

family

Emília is the oldest of five siblings. Alfredo Pires is Minister for Natural Resources. Aurora Pires is a nun and teaches in a Catholic kindergarten. Palmira Pires runs a non-profit training agency. Fernando Pires works for an international aid organization. The father's name was Alfredo Manuel Pires and was for a time the district administrator of Bobonaro . Emilia's husband Warren Macleod lives in Melbourne. The two have been married since April 21, 2007.

Awards

In 2012 Pires received the Ordem de Timor-Leste .

Web links

Commons : Emília Pires  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the East Timorese Ministry of Finance: Sensus Fo Fila Fali in Rairobo: an emotional return to the Minister's birthplace
  2. ↑ Lista do V Governo Constitucional de Timor-Leste (em actualização), August 6, 2012 , accessed on August 6, 2012
  3. ^ A b c The Canberra Times, Dec 28, 2007, Jill Jolliffe: Rebuilding East Timor
  4. ^ Website of the East Timorese Ministry of Finance : Biography of Minister of Finance, Ms. Emilia Pires (PDF; 213 kB)
  5. ↑ Mark Dodd: E Timor minister denies corruption , The Australian, January 21, 2009 ,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.theaustralian.news.com.au
  6. ^ The Age, May 11, 2009, Fretilin blamed for East Timor corruption
  7. ↑ Suara Timor-Lorosa'e on Timor Lorosae Nação, April 12, 2010, Due its success of overcoming 2006 crises, TL now chairs G7 + for two years
  8. ^ East Timor Law & Justice Bulletin, May 10, 2010, Finance Minister supports integration of Timor-Leste with Australia
  9. ^ Timor Newsline, May 13, 2010, Emilia Pires Case
  10. ↑ Tempo Semanal, March 1, 2011, Xanana Nominated Emilia As CareTaker And Allow His Deputy PM To Stand Trial ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  11. ^ About Timor-Leste Budget Transparency Portal . In: budgettransparency.gov.tl . Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  12. ↑ msn.news: E. Timor ministers questioned over graft , September 6, 2011 ( Memento of February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Timor Post: Emilia Pires Under Investigation By Prosecutor General's Office , January 10, 2012 , accessed January 12, 2013
  14. ↑ a b ABCnews: Australian citizen, former East Timorese minister fights against 'unfair' seven-year jail sentence for corruption , February 10, 2017 , accessed February 11, 2017.
  15. ↑ Ted McDonell: Former East Timor justice minister and convicted fraudster in pardon farce , August 30, 2014 ( memento of March 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed August 30, 2014.
  16. ↑ SAPO: Tribunal condena ex-secretário de Estado timorense a 12 anos de cadeia , October 28, 2015 , accessed on October 28, 2015.
  17. ↑ APO TL: Tribunal haruka eis-ministra atu fila ba Timor-Leste no entrega pasaporte , October 24, 2016 , accessed on October 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ Timor Agora: EX-MINISTRA FOGE À JUSTIÇA TIMORENSE E REFUGIA-SE NO PAÍS DOS “FILHOS DA PUTA” , December 2, 2016 , accessed on December 4, 2016.
  19. ↑ Sapo Notícias: Ex-vice-ministra condenada diz que só cumpriu ordens de Xanana Gusmão , December 20, 2016 , accessed December 20, 2016.
  20. ↑ ABC, July 15, 2008, East Timor - Dili Dynasty ( Memento of April 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Jornal da República: DECRETO PRESIDENTE 47/2012 , May 18, 2012 , accessed on September 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pires, Emilia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pires, Emilia Maria Valeria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Minister of Finance of East Timor
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Rairobo , Portuguese Timor