João Mendes Gonçalves

João Joy Mendes Gonçalves is a politician from East Timor . He is a member of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD) .

Career

For most of the Indonesian occupation, Gonçalves lived in Australia . There are rumors that he had problems with the Australian police due to illegal business.

In the legislative period from 2001 to 2007 Gonçalves was a successor member of the PSD in the national parliament of East Timor .

In August 2007, Gonçalves was sworn in as Minister of Economy and Development , giving up his regained seat in Parliament. In 2009 there were allegations of corruption against the Minister's wife, Kathleen Gonçalves . She is involved in a company that supplied rice to the East Timor government. However, the company already did this at the time of the previous governments under FRETILIN .

In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2012 the PSD failed because of the three percent hurdle and Gonçalves lost his ministerial office when the new government took office on August 8th. But he became the new party chairman and came first on the list in the 2017 elections , in which the PSD was just as unsuccessful in entering parliament as it was in the new elections in 2018 as part of the Movimento Social Democrata (MSD). Here, too, Gonçalves was the list leader.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pina: East Timor PM Xanana Gusmao accused of corruption , June 26, 2009 , accessed April 20, 2020.
2. ↑ La'o Hamutuk 2017 Timor-Leste Parliamentary Election - List of Parliamentary slates from all parties , accessed July 14, 2017.