V. Constitutional Government of East Timor
The V. constitutional government of East Timor (V Constitutional Government) was the fifth government of East Timor since the dismissal of East Timor to independence on May 20, 2002. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao ruled in his second consecutive term of 8 August 2012 to February 16, 2015 After that, he voluntarily resigned from his office.
history
In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , Gusmãos Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense CNRT overtook the opposition party FRETILIN for the first time and became the strongest force in East Timor's national parliament . While the coalition partner Partido Democrático PD was able to assert itself, the Associação Social-Democrata de Timor ASDT and the Partido Social Democrata PSD failed at the three percent hurdle after they had attracted attention in the previous legislative period , mainly due to arguments. The FRETILIN spin-off Frenti-Mudança , which formed a coalition with CNRT and PD, was new in parliament . The FRETILIN remained the only opposition party.
PD Vice General Secretary Samuel Mendonça announced on July 10, 2012 that the PD would go into the opposition if non-party members were accepted into the cabinet. That would not meet the PD criteria. Nevertheless, several non-party members were later found in the government. The government grew to 56 members, more than ever before. It had more members than the government of Indonesia . There were also three pairs of siblings among the ministers, which led the government to criticize oligarchy . Professor Damien Kingsbury of Deakin University disagreed with this criticism. Deputy ministers and state secretaries cannot be equated with ministerial posts in the count, so the number of government members is not unusual.
For the Ministry of Defense initially was Maria Domingas Alves provided, but spoke out President Taur Matan Ruak , the former military commander in chief of the army was, according to press reports against the former Minister of Social solidarity, so instead Cirilo José Cristóvão for Defense should be sworn in. Domingas allegedly refused to return to her old ministerial post because of the "insult". On October 23, 2012, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão himself was sworn in as Minister of Defense. Cristóvão received no government office.
There was also criticism of Jaime Xavier Lopes , the new State Secretary for Land and Property. He was previously the head of the Perguruan Setia Hati Terate (PSHT) martial arts organization and was imprisoned in connection with the organization's violence.
In November 2013, Gusmão announced that he would withdraw from active politics before the end of the legislative period. He would resign as Prime Minister by September 2014 at the latest. He later postponed the date to April 2015 because he still wanted to bring the new negotiations on the border dispute with Australia to an end. At the beginning of 2015, Gusmão announced again that he would reshuffle the government and also resign early. On February 5, he informed his coalition partners that he wanted to propose former Health Minister Rui Araújo as his successor and resigned with a letter to President Taur Matan Ruak. Araújo is a member of the central committee of FRETILIN, which is why there was anger in the three coalition parties about Gusmão's move. Araújo received support from the leadership of FRETILIN and from the former Prime Minister and President José Ramos-Horta . President Taur Matan Ruak officially accepted Gusmão's resignation on February 9th and charged Araújo with the formation of a new government on February 10th, after the CNRT had also officially proposed him. Xanana Gusmão continued as Prime Minister until the new Prime Minister was sworn in on February 16.
Members of the government
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timor Post: PD ready to sit as opposition: PD deputy secretary-general , July 11, 2012
- ^ Tempo Semanal: East Timorese Fifth Government: An Oligarchy , August 6, 2012 , accessed August 6, 2012
- ^ The Northern Myth: Timor Leste, the 5th Constitutional Government and the 'good governance' , August 12, 2012 , accessed August 15, 2012
- ↑ Global Voices: East Timor: President Rejects Woman Defense Minister , August 9, 2012 , accessed August 11, 2012
- ↑ Radio Timor-Leste: Civil society does not agree with the ex-prisoner to involve fifth constitutional Govt , August 9, 2012
- ↑ Japan Times: Law and disorder , February 25, 2007 , accessed August 12, 2012
- ↑ Crikey: East Timor's fragile stability under threat with PM retiring, November 15, 2013 , accessed December 22, 2013
- ↑ The Age: Xanana Gusmao to quit as leader of East Timor , January 15, 2014 , accessed January 15, 2014
- ^ Damien Kingsbury: No good time for Xanana Gusmão to let go , October 25, 2014 , accessed October 28, 2014.
- ↑ Timor Hau Nian Doben ( Lusa ): Partidos da coligação informados que Rui Araújo é o novo PM timorense , February 5, 2015 , accessed on February 5, 2015.
- ↑ Website of the President of East Timor: HE President of Republic, Taur Matan Ruak, Accepts the Request for Resignation of Prime Minister , February 9, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 9, 2015.
- ↑ Website of the President of East Timor: HE President of Republic, Taur Matan Ruak Accepts the Proposal of the Most Voted Party on nominee-Prime Minister , February 10, 2015 ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 10, 2015.
- ^ East Timorese Government website: Structure of the V Constitutional Government , accessed March 9, 2014
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