Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares

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Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares

Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares (born November 6, 1953 in Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor ) is a politician from East Timor . She is a member of FRETILIN and the party's deputy general secretary. She is also a member of the Central Committee and the National Political Commission of FRETILIN. Soares is deputy district coordinator in the party's women's organization, the Organização Popular de Mulheres Timorense OPMT.

Career

Soares is a civilian teacher. From 1972 to 1975 at the elementary school in Farol ( Dili ) and from July to November 1979 in Soibada .

In 1974/75 Soares was a supporter of the FRETILIN UNETIM student movement. In 1976 she was elected assistant in the FRRETILIN women's movement OPMT in Soibada and was involved in the party's literacy campaign. On January 15, 1979, she was captured by the Indonesian occupiers and brought back to Soibada. Nevertheless, she remained active in the resistance until the end of the occupation in 1999. From December 1979 to July 1999 Soares was again a teacher at the Catholic primary school in Uailili . From 1996 to 1999 she was the director of the school. Soares was most recently a teacher at Baucau Secondary School No. 2 .

She has been a member of the East Timorese national parliament since 2001 . Soares was a member of the Commission for the Eradication of Poverty, Rural and Regional Development and Gender Equality (Commission E) in the legislative period from 2007 to 2012 and has been a member of the Commission for Infrastructure, Transport and Communication (Commission E) since 2012. In 2017 she was re-elected to parliament at number 3 of the FRETILIN list. Here she became a member of the Ethics Commission (Commission G) and, from September 2017, delegate of the national group of the national parliament at the parliamentary assembly of the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries (CPLP). Since the minority government of FRETILIN and PD could not prevail in parliament, President Francisco Guterres dissolved it and called for new elections. In the early election on May 12, 2018, Soares was able to return to number 21 on the FRETILIN list, where FRETILIN is now the strongest opposition party. Soares is a member of the Commission for Education, Youth, Culture and Citizens' Rights (Commission G).

In 2006 Soares was vice-president of the Grupo Mulheres Parlamentares de Timor-Leste (GMPTL, German  group of women parliamentarians from East Timor ), in 2007 head of the delegation of women parliamentarians who traveled to the Philippines , from 2007 to 2011 she was vice-president of the network of women parliamentarians of the Association of Representatives Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (AP-CPLP) and then President from 2011 to 2013. She is now a member of Commission 3 of the AP-CPLP. She was President of the GMPTL from 2011 to 2012 and 2012 to 2017.

Soares led the FRETILIN delegation with the CNRT in the negotiations for the formation of a government in 2012 . From 2006 to 2011 she was the coordinator of the OPMT and from 2011 to 2016 the first deputy general secretary. In the Central Committee of FRETILIN (CCF), Soares was a member from 2006 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2016, 2011 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2016 a member of the National Political Commission (CPN).

From 2011 to 2012 and 2016 Soares was Vice President of the National Commission for the Preparation and Organization of Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. She was also secretary of the Association of Veterans of Combatants of the Liberation Struggle (2010-2014), Vice-Chief and Head of the Committee for the Organization of the National Conference on Reproductive Health (2009).

Web links

Commons : Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile on Parliament's website ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  2. ↑ a b Profile on Parliament's website, October 29, 2008 ( memento of October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f National Parliament of East Timor: Josefa Álvares Pereira Soares , accessed on July 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ La'o Hamutuk: Who will be in Timor-Leste's next Parliament? / Se sei tuir iha Parlamentu Nasionál? , July 23, 2017 , accessed September 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Comissões Especializadas Permanentes, Competencia e Composição 2017–2022 ( Memento of October 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ Jornal da República : RESOLUÇÃO DO PARLAMENTO NACIONAL N °. 20/2017, ELEIÇÃO DO GRUPO NACIONAL DO PARLAMENTO NACIONAL À ASSEMBLEIA PARLAMENTAR DA COMUNIDADE DOS PAÍSES DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA , September 27, 2017 , accessed on January 4, 2018.
  7. ^ Election lists for the 2018 parliamentary elections
personal data
SURNAME Soares, Josefa Álvares Pereira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Uato-Lari , Portuguese Timor