Vital dos Santos

This article deals with the East Timorese politician Vital dos Santos. For the Portuguese actor of the same name, see Vital dos Santos (actor)

Vital dos Santos

Vital dos Santos (born December 18, 1965 ) is a politician from East Timor . He is a member of the Partido Democrático (PD) and comes from the western part of the country .

politics

After the first round of the presidential elections in East Timor in 2007 , Santos represented the unsuccessful candidates Fernando de Araújo , Lúcia Lobato and Francisco Xavier do Amaral as a lawyer in the appeal against the result at the Tribunal de Recurso de Timor-Leste . The objection failed.

From 2007 to 2012 Santos was a member of the National Parliament of East Timor and was Vice-President of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs, Justice, Public Administration, Local Jurisprudence and Government Legislation (Commission A). When the PD parliamentary group leader Adriano do Nascimento, who also came from the west, accused the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Mariano Sabino Lopes (also PD) that all PD positions in the government were only filled with people from the eastern part of the country and therefore for Also called for a post, Nascimento received support from Santos and the MP Lucas da Costa . They threatened to vote against the formation of the ruling coalition Aliança da Maioria Parlamentar (AMP) in parliament .

In 2008 Santos got into a scuffle in parliament when the FRETILIN MP Osório Costa attacked him.

Santos left Parliament early in February 2011. In the 2012 parliamentary elections , Santos was no longer on the PD's electoral list. He is now working as a lawyer again.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on Parliament's website, October 29, 2008 ( memento of October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
2. ↑ u. a. Mentioned in a message from the American embassy in Dili of September 7, 2007 ( memento of the original of March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ABC.net: Unsuccessful East Timor candidates lodge formal appeal , accessed March 9, 2014
4. ↑ Wikinews: "Ninjas" in Timor-Leste? , March 24th 2010
5. ↑ Electoral list of the PD 2012 , accessed on March 5, 2014
6. ^ US embassy in Timor-Leste: List of Legal Service Providers in Timor-Leste , June 24, 2013 ( memento of March 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2014