Partido Socialista de Timor

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The Partido Socialista de Timor PST ( Socialist Party of Timor ) is a Marxist-Leninist party in East Timor .

Overview

Flag of the Partido Socialista de Timor

The party is represented in many communities and focuses its work on the traditional FRETILIN areas, such as Soibada and Aileu . Its members are primarily young people, but also some old members of the left wing of FALINTIL and FRETILIN. Some cooperative farms were built by her.

The structure of the party includes a politburo, a central committee with 82 members, and party organizations for labor, women and youth. In addition, the party newspaper Vanguarda is published irregularly . There are links to Timorese unions, but these are very small due to few industrial jobs. The PST has various international relationships, including with the Portuguese Communist Party , the Dutch Greens , the Australian Democratic Socialist Party and the Indonesian Rakyat Democratic Party . Connections to Abílio Araújo and his PNT are also denied, as is a hostile attitude towards the church.

ideology

Headquarters of the PST in Mascarenhas

The PST supports the democratic and parliamentary multi-party system, the separation of powers, free press and free access to information, freedom of religion, gender equality, the right to divorce and human rights. It calls for free access to education and the abolition of social classes. The party stands by workers' rights, including free trade unions, and demands a right to work and to a home as well as equal pay for equal work. Child labor should be banned, as should prostitution and polygamy. Agriculture should be further developed as the basis of the economy and microcredits should promote rural areas. Agricultural land is to be evenly distributed and large land holdings are to be expropriated. The focus is on collective ownership. Tourism should also be promoted. Access to the health system should be free and the environment should be protected. The PST stands behind the abolition of the death penalty and calls for the prison sentence to be limited to a maximum of 10 years. The primary purpose of prisons is to rehabilitate prisoners.

During the period after East Timor's independence in 2002, the PST advocated Portuguese and English as the official languages ​​until Tetum was developed. Today she demands that Portuguese should in future only be the working language, but no longer the national language (compare the languages ​​of East Timor ). Indonesian government property in East Timor was to be confiscated and nationalized, and society was to be reconciled after the occupation (1975–1999). The PST advocated good neighborly relations with the Pacific-Asian countries and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP).

The aim of the PST is a socialist, classless society in East Timor that is free from any colonialism, imperialism, paternalism and exploitation. This should be achieved peacefully through education and raising awareness. The PST is primarily concerned with the situation of workers and farmers.

Members

Avelino Coelho da Silva (2019)

2001 was party chairman Pedro dos Mártires da Costa . He also represented the PST and as a member of the East Timorese national parliament from 2001 to 2007. From 1999 to 2002, his deputy was Merício Hornay dos Reis , general secretary and thought leader of the Avelino Coelho da Silva party , and deputy general secretary Antonio Maher Lopes (battle name: Fatuk Mutin ), party spokesman Nelson Correira . From 1999 to 2002 Merício Juvinal dos Reis was Vice President of the PST, but left the party in 2003.

In 2007, Pedro dos Mártires da Costa switched to the conservative Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT). The new party chairman was Nelson Correira (at least until 2010), and General Secretary still Avelino Coelho da Silva.

In 2011 Avelino Coelho da Silva took over the chairmanship of the party and continues to hold it (as of 2017). Pedro Sarmento became the new general secretary, Ana Pereira Soares became second general secretary and Joanica Pereira dos Santos became third general secretary . The current Secretary General (as of 2016) is Manuel Azancot de Menezes . The deputy party chairman Hélder Lopes died in 2017.

history

Old flag of the Partido Socialista de Timor
Old PST logo

The PST is a spin-off from FRETILIN . It has its roots in a small communist group within the FRETILIN youth organization OJETIL, which was founded in 1981. In December 1989 the East Timorese students who went to universities in Java and Bali founded the FECLITIL (Student Resistance Front for the Liberation of East Timor) . The OJETIL had become too moderate for them. According to his own statements, Silva founded them together with Costa and Lopes as Associação Socialista Timorense AST on December 20, 1990 in Indonesia . It was intended to appeal to both East Timorese students and Indonesian workers and had its center in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities where East Timorese studied and worked, including Bali, South Sumatra and East Kalimantan . In February 1997 the AST was officially registered as a party in Indonesia. In the same year members of the AST were accused of a bomb attack. Coelho da Silva then fled to the Austrian embassy in Jakarta, where he found asylum. But he was not allowed to leave the country. Coelho was only able to leave the embassy in April 1999 after the Indonesian President Suharto was overthrown. In 1998 the AST was transformed into the PST. On February 10 and 11, 2000, the PST held its first national congress in Dili .

With the support of the PST, the veterans organization Conselho Popular pela Defesa da República Democrática de Timor-Leste (CPD-RDTL) was founded in 1999 , which called for a return to the constitution of 1975 instead of a new constitution . The PST was initially not represented in the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense . He was only joined in 2000. The PST was represented in the permanent council of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense by Pedro dos Mártires da Costa. Avelino Coelho da Silva was a member of the National Consultative Council (NCC), a transitional parliament under administration by the United Nations , from the end of 1999 .

In the elections for the constituent assembly on August 30, 2001, the PST received 1.78% of the vote and thus one of the 88 seats in what would later become the East Timorese national parliament . The only MP in the national parliament was the PST chairman Pedro dos Mártires da Costa.

Supported the PST initially repeatedly FRETILIN government of Mari Alkatiri , so abolish religious education in state schools in an attempt, she went during the 2006 East Timorese crisis at bay with the ruling party and turned the critics with José Ramos-Horta and Xanana Gusmão to . In the parliamentary elections on June 30, 2007 , the PST received only 3,982 votes, which corresponded to 0.96% of the valid votes, and thus clearly failed to meet the new 3% hurdle. It found the greatest support in what was then the Viqueque district , where it received 699 votes (2.11%). Surprisingly, PST General Secretary Coelho da Silva became State Secretary for Energy in Gusmão's government . Officially, he was considered a non-party member of the cabinet.

In the 2007 presidential election Coelho da Silva joined as a candidate, but was eliminated after the first round on April 9, with only 2.06% of the votes from.

In July 2007, the PST joined with five other parties that had also failed in the parliamentary elections by the three percent hurdle to form the Liga Democrática Progressiva LDP . The LDP was supposed to serve as a political platform outside of parliament for the parties, which are ideologically and in their program very different .

In 2012 the PST failed to pass the three percent hurdle as well, although with 2.41% (11,379 votes) it was able to improve significantly compared to its 2007 result. It received over 3% in the districts of Bobonaro (3.38%), Ermera (5.77%), Manatuto (3.98%), Manufahi (4.55%) and Oecusse (4.33%). Coelho da Silva was reappointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister Gusmão , this time as Secretary of State for the Council of Ministers. He kept the post after the government reshuffle in 2015 under the new Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo .

In the 2012 presidential election , the PST did not detect any candidate.

As of July 30, 2015, the PST was a member of the Bloku Unidade Popular (BUP) party alliance, an electoral alliance of five parties that failed in the 2012 parliamentary elections by the three percent hurdle. Avelino Coelho became General Secretary of the BUP, but on July 27, 2016, the PST left the BUP due to a disagreement.

On September 28, Antonio Maher Lopes was nominated as her candidate for the 2017 presidential election at a meeting of the PST's expanded central committee . In the March 20th vote, Lopes received just 1.76% of the vote.

In the 2017 parliamentary elections , the PST received 0.86% and failed to pass the four percent hurdle. The PST then joined the Fórum Demokrátiku Nasionál (FDN), but separated from the alliance in 2018 before the early elections on May 12 , in order to become part of the Movimento Social Democrata (MSD). In the early parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2018 , the MSD clearly failed because of the four percent threshold with only 3,188 votes (share: 0.5%).

Web links

Commons : Partido Socialista de Timor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ Timor Agora: FALECEU Helder LOPES | Lutador incansável pela luta de libertação nacional de Timor-Leste , November 12, 2017 , accessed on March 19, 2018.
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  9. ↑ Nassrine De Rham Azimi, Li Lin Chang: The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET): Debriefing and Lessons , Report of the 2002 Tokyo Conference, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore), S. 289th
  10. ↑ CNE - Final result of the counting of the parliamentary elections of June 30, 2007 ( Memento of August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 532 kB)
  11. ↑ UDT website
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  13. ↑ Sapo.pt: Coligação de pequenos partidos nasce em Timor-Leste para as próximas eleições , July 30, 2015 , accessed on October 7, 2015.
  14. ↑ Facebook presence of the BUP: Francamente BUP responde imediatamente PST nia karta hodi retira husi BUP, Dili 27 Jullu 2016 , July 28, 2016 , accessed on December 14, 2016.
  15. ↑ Timor Agora: Apenas uma coligação se apresentará a eleições parlamentares em Timor-Leste , May 26, 2017 , accessed on June 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ Partido Socialista de Timor apoia António Maher Lopes / Fatuk Mutin às Eleições Presidenciais 2017 , October 2, 2016 , accessed on October 2, 2016.
  17. ^ STAE: Preliminary results , accessed on March 22, 2017.
  18. ↑ STAE: Preliminary final result of July 24, 2017 .
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