Miguel Soares (politician)

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Miguel Soares is a politician from East Timor . He is a member of FRETILIN .

In the 2001 elections, Soares was elected to 6th place on the FRETILIN list in the Constituent Assembly, which became the National Parliament of East Timor when it became independent on May 20, 2002 . In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2007 Soares no longer stood as a candidate.

In the assembly, Soares was one of the MPs who spoke out against the inclusion of “sexual orientation” in the constitutional points that prevent people from being discriminated against. He explained that this could create contradiction and confusion at a moment when Timor was just beginning to become a nation. In the end, 13 MPs spoke out in favor of including the point and 52 against. 14 abstained.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Parliament of East Timor: Legislatura 2002-2007 , accessed on May 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Electoral lists of all parties and list of independent candidates, August 2001 , accessed on April 27, 2020.
  3. ^ List from the STAE with the candidates for the parliamentary elections 2007 (PDF file; 819 kB).
  4. ↑ Annemarie Devereux: Timor-Leste's Bill of Rights: A Preliminary History , ANU Press 2015, limited preview in Google book search.
personal data
SURNAME Soares, Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION East Timorese politician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century