Rui Maria de Araújo

Rui Maria de Araújo (2015)

Rui Maria de Araújo (born May 21, 1964 in Suco Mape , Portuguese Timor ) is an East Timorese doctor and politician. From 2001 to 2007 he was Minister of Health , from 2006 to 2007 also Deputy Prime Minister and from 2015 to 2017 Prime Minister of East Timor . Araújo was Minister of State and again Minister of Health from September 15, 2017 to June 22, 2018.

family

Rui Maria de Araújo and his wife Teresa António Madeira Soares (2017)

The mother of Rui Maria de Araújo was Felismina Lopes , Rui Maria never met his biological father. The catechists and teachers José de Araujo from Ainaro and Laura de Jesus Araújo from Uatucarbau adopted the boy at the age of three months.

On September 6, 2015, Rui Maria de Araújo was forced to counter rumors on social networks that his father was Arnaldo dos Reis Araújo , the Indonesian governor of East Timor, during the occupation. In addition to his life story , Rui Maria de Araújo also published pictures of his baptismal certificate and family photos on Facebook .

Araújo is married to Teresa António Madeira Soares and has two children.

Career

Araújo was born in Mape, which at that time still belonged to the Ainaro district with its sub-district Zumalai and was only later attached to the Cova Lima district .

He graduated from elementary school in Suai . In 1974, in the last days of the Portuguese colonial era, he came to the Colégio de São José in Dili . During this time, at the age of ten, under the influence of José de Araújo, his political interest and commitment to the left-wing ASDT, later FRETILIN, began . José de Araujo was a delegate of the ASDT / FRETILIN in 1974 and regional secretary of the party's regional committee in Cova Lima until the Indonesian invasion in 1975. The family fled from the invaders into the jungle of the Fronteira Sul resistance sector , where they hid until 1978. Here in the same year, during the encirclement by the Indonesian military, both Rui Maria's biological mother and two of his sisters disappeared. Even today it is not known where her remains are. In 1976, José de Araujo was arrested by the Indonesian military and detained without a trial until 1979.

With the seventh grade Rui Araújo completed the Colégio in 1985 and received a scholarship from the Indonesian provincial government for the subject of English literature at the Christian University Satya Wacana ( Indonesian Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana , UKSW) in Salatiga on Java . Araújo was already sending messages to the Timorese community in Australia when he was a student . In 1986 he moved to the medical faculty of Islaun Sultan Agung University in Semarang (Java) and continued to work in the resistance as a courier between Bali , Surabaya and Jakarta . In 1989 Araújo finally went to Udayana University in Bali, where he graduated in general medicine in 1994. In the meantime he was a member of the East Timorese student organization RENETIL ( National Resistance of Students from Timor-Leste ) and wrote for their newsletter Neon Metin .

Between 1990 and 1992 Araújo became the main liaison between FALINTIL boss Xanana Gusmão in the underground and the support network abroad, including Macau and Portugal . Araújo was part of the team that prepared the later failure of the delegation of the Portuguese parliament's visit to East Timor in 1991 and worked with other well-known independence activists, such as Kirsty Sword and the journalist Max Stahl .

After working in the Caritas tuberculosis relief program, Araújo worked as a vice surgeon at the Dili hospital between 1994 and 1998. In addition to his public relations work for the East Timorese resistance, he secretly cared for and treated wounded independence fighters, including the FALINTIL commander David Alex Daitula in April 1996 . In February 1998, Araújo wrote an anonymous letter of complaint to the then Indonesian governor José Abílio Osório Soares . In September of the same year, Araújo assisted Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo , the apostolic administrator of Dili, in organizing The Dare I Dialogue Round .

In October 1998 Araújo received a scholarship from the New Zealand government and in June 2001 graduated with a Master of Public Health from the University of Otago . His master's thesis was entitled “An adequate health system for East Timor from the perspective of the Timorese”.

In between he returned to his homeland after the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999 and began to work for the health department (Autoridade de Saúde) of the UN administration , the nucleus of the later health ministry . From September 2001 Araújo was director of the health department and on September 30th he became the first health minister of the transitional government. Araújo also held this office after East Timor's independence on May 20, 2002 under the first Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri . When the latter had to resign due to the unrest in East Timor in 2006 , José Ramos-Horta succeeded him as Prime Minister. Araújo kept the Ministry of Health and became the second deputy prime minister alongside Estanislau da Silva . Araújo also retained both offices when Estanislau da Silva became Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Araújo in conversation with First Lady Isabel da Costa Ferreira

Parliamentary elections were held again in 2007 , after which, under Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, a government was formed for the first time without FRETILIN. Araújo was no longer a member of the new government. His successor as Minister of Health was Nélson Martins . Araújo remained from 2007 to 2009 as a consultant in the Ministry of Health. From August 2009 to February 2015 he was a consultant for management and public relations in the Ministry of Finance. Although FRETILIN has been a sympathizer since 1975, Araújo was still independent as minister. He did not join FRETILIN until December 9, 2010 and was promoted to the Central Committee on September 11, 2011. In the same year, Araújo founded the “Militant Health Professionals FRETILIN” ( Profissionais de Saúde Militante FRETILIN PSMF). Even if FRETILIN took a tough opposition path towards the new government, Araújo was considered capable of reaching a consensus and the political opponents recognized the dedication, morality and quality in his work.

At the beginning of 2015, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão announced that he would reshuffle the government and also resign prematurely. His government is based on a coalition of its Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense (CNRT) and the smaller parties Partido Democrático (PD) and Frenti-Mudança (FM) . On February 5, Gusmão informed his coalition partners that he would propose Araújo as his successor. After the CNRT also supported the proposal, President Taur Matan commissioned Ruak Araújo on February 10 to form a new government. On February 16, Araújo was sworn in as the new Prime Minister. His cabinet included members from all four parties represented in parliament.

In the parliamentary elections in East Timor in 2017 , Araújo ran for FRETILIN in 6th place on the list and thus successfully entered the national parliament . However, on the second day of the meeting, September 6, 2017, he renounced his seat in favor of Noémia Sequeira . On September 15, Araújo was sworn in as Minister of State and again as Minister of Health in the new government under Prime Minister Alkatiri. He was also head of the education department until a new minister was appointed. Araújo's term of office as minister ended with the assumption of the Eighth Government of East Timor on June 22, 2018.

Due to the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic in East Timor , Araújo has been appointed to the government's crisis team as coordinator for the official liaison to the Working Group on Preventing and Mitigating the Outbreak of COVID-19 .

Honors

Awarded the Ordem de Timor-Leste by President Taur Matan Ruak

In 2017 Araújo received the Ordem de Timor-Leste on ribbon.

Web links

Commons : Rui Maria de Araújo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ SAPO: VII Governo constitucional de Timor-Leste toma hoje posse incompleto , September 15, 2017 , accessed on September 15, 2017.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rui Maria de Araújo: RESPONDE BA INFORMASAUN NE'EBÉ KESTIONA HAU NIA KREDIBILIDADE ... , on Facebook, September 6, 2015 (tetum), accessed on October 9, 2015.
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