Gastão Sousa

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Gastao Francisco de Sousa (2017)

Gastão Francisco de Sousa is a politician from East Timor . From 2012 he was Minister for Public Works, from 2015 also for Transport and Telecommunications. Sousa was a member of the Partido Democrático (PD) and later moved to the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT).

Career

Sousa was originally a director at Timor Telecom . On August 8, 2012, he was sworn in as Minister for Public Works. With the government reshuffle in 2015 and the associated downsizing of the cabinet, Pedro Lay's previous Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications was added to his portfolio.

In March 2016, the coalition between CNRT and PD broke over the dispute over the military commander in chief and the conflict between government and parliament on the one hand and President Taur Matan Ruak on the other. In order to ensure the stability of the government, Sousa and the other members of the PD announced in the cabinet that their party membership was suspended. They kept their offices as independent politicians.

When the VII government took office on September 15, 2017, Sousa's tenure in the cabinet ended.

On October 6, 2017, Sousa was brought to court on allegations of embezzlement. He and his two co-defendants, officer Diogo da Costa, head of cabinet in Sousa's ministry, and Sousa's daughter, Jordão Maria de Jesus da Silva Sousa (Jordy Sousa) , did not appear in court, which gave the court five days' notice under threat of one Arrest warrant set. The hearing was postponed to January 2018. Sousa's son, public employee Ferlio Afonso Bado Loi da Silva Sousa (Viali) and Martinho Gusmão of the parish of Santo Antonio in Manatuto are also charged . The allegations concern the private use of the Ministry's official cars by Sousa, his children, Costa and the parish who provided a car to Sousa. In addition, money from a road construction fund of the Asian Development Bank is said to have been used privately.

The pending proceedings resulted in Sousa (now a member of the CNRT), who was nominated as Minister for Projects and Strategic Investments in the Eighth Constitutional Government of East Timor (now a member of the CNRT), was rejected for office by President Francisco Guterres .

Web links

Commons : Gastão Sousa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tempo Semanal: Client TT Aumenta Volume ba 121.500 , December 15, 2008 , accessed on March 21, 2015.
  2. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: Structure of the V Constitutional Government , accessed March 9, 2014
  3. ^ Website of the government of Timor-Leste: Structure of the VI Constitutional Government , accessed on February 19, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ Timor Agora: Ministro da Educação timorense fica no Governo para garantir "estabilidade governativa" , May 7, 2016 , accessed on May 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ GMN-TV: TDD sei hasai mandadu kaptura Gastão Sousa , October 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ UCA news: Turmoil for new Timor-Leste PM as 11 ministerial nominations nixed , June 22, 2018 , accessed on June 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Sousa, Gastao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sousa, Gastao Francisco de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century