Fernando de Araújo (East Timorese politician)
Fernando La Sama (also Lasama ) de Araújo ( born February 26, 1963 in Manutaci / Portuguese Timor ) is the leader of the Partido Democrático PD. From 2007 to 2012, he was President of the Parliament of the National Parliament of East Timor. Since 2013 Araújo, Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor.
Childhood and occupation
Araújo was only twelve years old when Indonesia occupied East Timor. He witnessed 18 of his family members were killed by the Indonesian army. He lived, therefore, like many other refugees for a time in the mountains. His education he finished in Dili. From 1985 to 1989 studied Araújo on the Udayana University in Bali literature and founded there in 1988, the East Timorese pro -independence student movement Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste RENETIL ( National Resistance of students from Timor -Leste ). 1988 to 2000 he was its secretary general. The RENETIL had branches in many places in East Timor, Indonesia and abroad, with a total of several thousand members. On November 24, 1991 Araújo was arrested for organizing a non-violent demonstration twelve days after the Santa Cruz massacre by the Indonesian authorities and convicted of subversion to a prison term of nine years, of which it invests more than six years until 23 March 1998 Cipinang prison in Jakarta was serving. Here learned Araújo also met his wife, who visited him as an activist of Amnesty International. Araújo in 1999 was one of the leading members of the CNRT one of the organizers of the successful independence referendum. Studied from late 1999 to 2001 and taught at the University of Melbourne Araújo.
Political career
In the transitional cabinet of UN administration (UNTAET ) was Araújo Deputy Foreign Minister of East Timor. He was elected chairman of the newly founded by him in June PD 2001, which was in the parliamentary elections the second largest party with 8.72%. Thus she remained, however, far behind the dominant FRETILIN. With the unrest in East Timor in 2006 Araujo's house was burned down by rioters.
Araújo founded the environmental organization Fundaçao Haburas, the weekly magazine Talitakum and the weekly party newspaper of the PD Vox Populi.
Fernando de Araújo stepped to the presidential election on April 9, 2007. Both Father Martinho Gusmao, the representative of the Catholic Church in the National Electoral Commission, CNE, as well as the fugitive rebel leader Alfredo Reinado spoke for him as a successor to the outgoing President Xanana Gusmão. On April 1, threw in Macadique ( subdistrict Uato -Lari ) 20 FRETILIN-A CHAIN stones on an event by Araújo. According to the official result of the first ballot Araújo won the elections with 19.18 % of votes in third place behind Prime Minister José Ramos -Horta and the President of Parliament Francisco Guterres and could therefore no longer compete in the runoff election on May 8. The result has been questioned because of the chaos in the counting and various irregularities by Araújo, before the court of appeal against the election result but was rejected. From the runoff Ramos -Horta was the winner.
With the parliamentary elections of 30 June 2007, Araújo went as a delegate its a PD to the National Parliament of East Timor. On July 30, he was elected President of the Parliament here.
In an attempt Ramos -Horta was seriously injured on 11 February 2008. Under the Constitution, the Speaker takes over in the event of illness, the official duties of the President. Since Araújo was at that time in Portugal, his representative Vicente da Silva Guterres took over the task to return Araujo on February 13.
In the 2012 presidential election Araújo came back in and received 17.30 % of votes. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 Araújo was re-elected deputies took the seat but not since he took over the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinator of Social Affairs in the new government. His post as President of the Parliament, he handed over to his successor Vicente da Silva Guterres from the Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução Timorense CNRT on July 30, 2012.
Private
He is married to Jacqueline Jackie Siapno since 2001, a native Filipina. She has been working at the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Together they have a son born in 2004. Fernando de Araújo is a member of originating from the west of the country ethnicity of Mambai. Besides Mambai and Tetum Araújo speaks Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese and English. His fight name La Sama means " someone, where you can not trample ". Since April 2009, Araújo honorary citizen of Dagupan, the birthplace of his wife.