Partidu Democrática Liberal

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The Partidu Democrática Liberal PDL is a party in East Timor that was founded as the Partai Liberal ( Liberal Party ) in May 2001. The name was changed in 2011.

Members

The party chairman was founding president Armando José Dourado da Silva in 2011 . Fernando Mara Sousa, General Secretary Latino Quimbra, was the vice-president at the establishment.

Before the 2012 elections , Silva was replaced by Marito de Araújo as chairman. General Secretary is Gaspar de Araújo .

background

Flag of the Partai Liberal

The PL has its roots in the Frente Iha Timor Unidos Nafatin (FITUN), a youth independence organization , even if it is not a simple transformation. Several leading members come from FITUN. Some sources report that FITUN split on this question. Liberal parties from other countries, such as the United Kingdom, were taken as models.

The party is considered liberal and right-wing. The party motto, which was adopted by the Liberal party, is Relijaun (religion), Kultura (culture), Liberdade (freedom). The party motto is used in Tetum , while most of the other parties, at least initially, use Portuguese or both official languages ​​together.

When the PL was founded, the members were primarily young people who had participated in the resistance against the Indonesian occupation. In the first parliamentary elections on August 30, 2001, the party received 1.10% of the vote and thus one of a total of 88 seats in the parliament of East Timor . Party leader Silva took over the seat in the constituent assembly and the later parliament, but was temporarily represented by Carlos de Almeida Sarmento as a member of parliament. The PL had its strongholds in the districts of Oe-Cusse Ambeno (5.7%) and Viqueque (3.1%).

In the new parliamentary elections on June 30 , the Partai Liberal did not run its own list after a decision by party leader Silva. Instead, he ran for the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT). On June 9, 2007, 250 PL members under the leadership of Marcus de Conceição declared their accession to the Partido Democrático (PD). Silva could not win a seat in parliament on the CNRT list.

In the parliamentary elections on July 7, 2012 , the Partidu Democrática Liberal failed at the three percent hurdle with 0.47% (2,222 votes). Instead of party leader Marito de Araújo, General Secretary Gaspar de Araújo had headed the list. In the Ermera district , the PDC achieved its best result with 1.79%. The 2017 and 2018 the PDL presented no candidate list.

Web links

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis Shoesmith: Political Parties and Groupings of Timor-Leste , Australian Labor International, October 2011, 3rd edition ( Memento of May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ a b Cidadaun: August 2001 edition , accessed on August 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ Electoral lists for the 2012 parliamentary elections , accessed on August 11, 2020.
  4. ^ Dan Nicholson: The Lorikeet Warriors: East Timorese new generation nationalist resistance, 1989-99 , Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, October 2001.
  5. ↑ PD blog: Militante PL 250 Afilia ba PD, Lassama: June 13, 2007 , accessed on August 11, 2020.
  6. ^ List from the STAE with the candidates for the parliamentary elections 2007 (PDF file; 819 kB). Accessed August 11, 2020 ( tetum )
  7. ↑ STAE ( memento of December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 9, 2012