José Luís Guterres

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José Luís Guterres (2019)

José Luís Guterres (born January 1, 1954 in Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor ), Lugu for short , is a politician from East Timor . From 2006 to 2007 and from August 8, 2012 to February 16, 2015, he was the country's foreign minister . From 2019 to 2020 he was President of the Autoridade da Região Administrativa Especial de Oecusse (ARAEO). Guterres is president of the Frenti-Mudança (FM) party.

education

Guterres studied at the University of Cambridge in England , the University of the Western Cape in South Africa , the Malaysia Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations and the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Portugal .

Political career

Guterres as Deputy Prime Minister (2009)

Guterres was a member of the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF), East Timor's largest party that organized much of the resistance against the Indonesian occupation. During the occupation, Guterres lived in Portugal, where he set up the Comité de Acção da FRETILIN (CAF) with others . Later, through FRETILIN, he was also a member of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense CNRT , the umbrella organization of the parties and groups of the East Timorese independence movement. Guterres served as ambassador for the unrecognized government of the occupied country in Angola , Mozambique and at the United Nations .

After East Timor's independence was restored in 2002, Guterres was the government's deputy foreign minister until 2003. He was also the representative of East Timor at the Sustainable Development Summit in South Africa in August 2002 and head of the East Timorese delegation to the Council of Ministers at the meeting of the CPLP in Brazil and at the ACP / EU conference in the Dominican Republic in July 2002. On May 8th In 2003 he became East Timor's first official ambassador to the United Nations and the United States .

In 2006 riots broke out in East Timor after the mutiny of almost half of the country's soldiers . The FRETILIN government under Marí Alkatiri was finally forced to resign. The non-party José Ramos-Horta took over the post of Prime Minister for Alkatiri . Guterres had previously refused to become prime minister. In return, Guterres became East Timor's foreign minister instead of Ramos-Horta. As the leader of the group FRETILIN Mudança ( Reform-FRETILIN ), Guterres failed at a party congress in 2006 in an attempt to overthrow Alkatiri as the general secretary of FRETILIN.

Guterres remained Foreign Minister until May 19, 2007. Ramos-Horta had won the presidential elections on May 9, 2007 and therefore resigned as Prime Minister the day before he was sworn in as the new President . His successor, the FRETILIN man Estanislau da Silva , an ally of Alkatiris, did not take Guterres into the new government. The confrontation of FRETILIN Mudança with its own party escalated after the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007 , which ended for FRETILIN with the loss of an absolute majority in the East Timorese parliament , even if it remained the strongest party. Alkatiri obtained a party expulsion procedure against the members of the FRETILIN Mudança because they had asked voters to vote for the main competitor Xanana Gusmão from the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense CNRT . The reformers did not comply with the request to leave FRETILIN voluntarily. Guterres and the others were expelled from FRETILIN.

After the elections, Gusmão was tasked with forming a government as the leader of the coalition " Aliança da Maioria Parlamentar AMP ". Surprisingly, he appointed José Luis Guterres Deputy Prime Minister, which was taken as a sign that the reform forces in FRETILIN were given the opportunity to participate in the government. FRETILIN itself refused a subsequent offer to participate in the government.

At the end of September 2009, Guterres was accused of corruption by Sebastião Ximenes, the East Timorese ombudsman. Ximenes submitted a report to the Attorney General for investigation. Before he returned to East Timor from his post as UN ambassador in 2006, Guterres is said to have appointed his wife as advisor to the UN ambassador and increased her salary from a simple employee to that of a diplomat. Guterres feared that with the otherwise low salary, his family in New York would have been on the streets if he hadn't found a new job. Valerio received just under $ 20,000 for three months of work. According to the ombudsman's report, however, since she is not an East Timorese citizen and had not lived in the country for at least eight years, she was not granted this salary. Guterres emphasized that the then Prime Minister Ramos-Horta had approved the decision, as had the Secretary General and the Deputy Foreign Minister. He didn't do anything wrong. Ximenes was hired by the Alkatiri government and is close to the now opposition FRETILIN. After several similar allegations against various members of the government, Prime Minister Gusmão Ximenes alleged bias.

ARAEO President José Luís Guterres and President Francisco Guterres (2019)

On July 31, 2010 Guterres was elected President of the National Olympic Committee ( Comité Olímpico Nacional de Timor-Leste CONTL). He held the office until 2013.

In September 2010, Guterres was charged with abuse of office and corruption by the public prosecutor and was subsequently suspended from his post by Prime Minister Gusmão and the parliament. The background was the allegations regarding the award of the highly endowed diplomatic post to the wife of Guterres. Guterres pointed out that his wife had received the post from then Deputy Foreign Minister Adaljíza Magno (FRETILIN). In 2011, Prime Minister Gusmão appointed Emília Pires as his representative while he was on a business trip abroad from March 1st to 11th. José Luís Guterres should first face his trial. The process was delayed because Parliament had not yet lifted Guterres' immunity. It happened on April 6th. On May 9, Guterres was acquitted of the charges by the court.

On April 28, 2011 the FRETILIN Mudança was registered as a separate party. Admission to the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2012 finally took place in August after the name was changed to Frenti-Mudança (FM). In the presidential elections in East Timor 2012 on March 17, Guterres stood as a candidate and failed with 1.99% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2012, the Frenti-Mudança made it into the national parliament with two seats. Guterres renounced the seat of parliament in order to be foreign minister again as of August 8, 2012 in the government coalition with CNRT and PD.

During the government reshuffle in 2015, Guterres lost his post as foreign minister. His successor was Hernâni Coelho . Guterres returned to the national parliament as group leader of the FM.

The presidential elections in East Timor in 2017 were also unsuccessful for Guterres. In the vote on March 20, Guterres received only 2.62% of the vote and in the parliamentary elections on July 22, 2017 , the FM failed because of the four percent hurdle and Guterres lost his office.

On November 6, 2019, the East Timorese Council of Ministers nominated Guterres as the new President of the Autoridade da Região Administrativa Especial de Oecusse (ARAEO). After criticizing his administration and the shift in the balance of power in the 8th government, Guterres was dismissed as president on June 10, 2020.

family

Guterres is married to Ana Maria Valerio and has two children. His sister Isabel Guterres has been Minister for Social Solidarity since 2012.

Web links

Commons : José Luís Guterres  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ East Timor’s National Parliament: José Luís Guterres , accessed on May 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ International Crises Group: Timor-Leste's Elections: Leaving Behind a Violent Past? , Update Briefing, Asia Briefing N ° 134, Dili / Jakarta / Brussels, 21 February 2012 ( Memento from March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  3. ↑ Timor Agora: Jose Luis Guterres Re-eleitu ba Prezidente PFM , December 12, 2016 , accessed January 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Antero Bendito da Silva, Robert Boughton , Rebecca Spence: FRETILIN Popular Education 1973-1978 and its Relevance to Timor-Leste Today , University of New England, 2012, accessed June 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Tagesschau, July 8, 2006, Ramos-Orta is to pacify East Timor (tagesschau.de archive)
  6. ↑ a b c The Australian, August 9, 2007, Fretilin sidelined in Timorese cabinet ( Memento of August 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b AKI, August 24, 2007, East Timor: Fretilin says no to joining government as calm returns to capital ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ The Australian, September 30, 2009, Deputy East Timor PM Jose Luis Guterres corruption claim ( Memento of October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ ABC Radio: E Timor Government attacks Ombudsman investigation , August 7, 2009 , accessed January 6, 2015.
  10. ^ Comité Olímpico Nacional de Timor-Leste. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013 ; Retrieved December 24, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Comité Olímpico Nacional de Timor-Leste ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2015.
  12. ↑ Tempo Semanal, September 23, 2010, Breaking News: Vice Prime Minister "Lugu" and Foreign Minister Zac da Costa - Indicted
  13. ↑ ABC, October 1, 2010, E Timor ministers indicted over corruption claims
  14. ^ Radio Timor-Leste, March 3, 2011, I am innocent, says Deputy Prime Minister Guterres
  15. ↑ 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 )
  16. ^ Jornal Digital, April 7, 2011, Timor-Leste: Parlamento suspende vice-primeiro-ministro ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  17. ^ Timor Post, March 3, 2011, Courts postpones trial for Guterres
  18. ^ Timor Post, March 3, 2011, Parliament ready to remove Guterres' immunity
  19. ↑ Suara Timor Lorosa'e, March 3, 2011, Deputy Prime Minister Guterres: “I am innocent, not corrupt”
  20. ↑ Suara Timor Lorosa'e, March 3, 2011, Parliament is waiting for the report of Committee I before deciding to suspend Guterres
  21. ^ Diario Nacional, May 12, 2011, Horta calls for everyone to be subjected to the courts' decision
  22. ^ Diario Nacional, April 28, 2011, Fretilin Mudansa registered as a political party
  23. ↑ Suara Timor Leste, August 12, 2011, I congrulates Guterres, says Alkatiri
  24. ^ STAE: Preliminary results , accessed on March 22, 2017.
  25. ↑ Government of East Timor: Konsellu Ministru Aprova Nomeasaun Eis Vise Primeiru-Ministru, José Luís Guterres ba Prezidente Autoridade Foun RAEOA , November 6, 2019 , accessed on November 7, 2019.
  26. ↑ Lusa: Ex-presidente da autoridade timorense de Oecusse lamenta, mas aceita exoneração , June 10, 2020 , accessed on June 10, 2020.
  27. ↑ Tempo Semanal: EAST TIMORESE FIFTH GOVERNMENT: AN OLIGARCHY , August 6, 2012 , accessed on August 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Guterres, José Luís
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lugu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor