Partido Nasionalista Timorense
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The Partido Nasionalista Timorense ( PNT , Portuguese Partido Nacionalista Timorense , German Nationalist Timorese Party ) is a party in East Timor . It was founded on June 15, 1999.
The founder and president is Abílio Araújo , who was FRETILIN representative overseas during the Indonesian occupation until his release in 1993 .
During the independence referendum in 1999, the PNT advocated an autonomy solution instead of independence from Indonesia. In terms of orientation, it is described as progressive national . So should Bahasa Indonesia as the official language and the Indonesian rupiah remain as currency. Araújo criticized the then President Xanana Gusmãos decision for the Portuguese language as the official language and referred several times in this context to Gusmãos and José Ramos-Hortas Portuguese roots. An important point in PNT's policy is the close friendly relationship with Indonesia. Here she works with the Indonesian party PDI-P .
Performing in elections
In the first election for the East Timorese national parliament on August 30, 2001, the PNT won 2.2% of the vote and thus two seats. The MPs were Aires Francisco Cabral and PNT President Aliança Araújo's sister .
In the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007 , the PNT received only 10,057 votes, which corresponds to 2.42% of the valid votes and thus failed to meet the new three percent hurdle. It found the greatest support in the Baucau district , where it received 1,273 votes (2.46%). The PNT received over 1000 votes only in the Viqueque district with 1183 votes (3.57%).
In July 2007, the PNT joined with five other parties that had also failed in the parliamentary elections to the three percent hurdle to form the Liga Democrática Progressiva LDP . The LDP is intended to serve as a political platform outside parliament for parties that are ideologically and in terms of their program very different.
The PNT was not admitted to the parliamentary elections in 2012 because it had not submitted its electoral list to the electoral authorities within the deadline. Aliança Araújo competed with her Partido Timorense Democrático (PTD) , founded in 2008 , but failed at the three percent hurdle.
Web links
- PNT homepage (Portuguese)
- Homepage of the PNT (Tetum)
- Interview with Abílio Araújo, March 18, 2001
- Flags of the world - Timorese Nationalist Party (East Timor )
Individual evidence
- ↑ CNE - Final result of the counting of the parliamentary elections of June 30, 2007 ( Memento of August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 545 kB)
- ↑ UDT website
- ↑ Noticías Timor-Leste (SAPO): CNE apresenta lista de partidos para as legislativas , May 14, 2012
- ↑ STAE ( memento of December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on September 9, 2012