Socialist Party of Timor
The Partido Socialista de Timor PST ( Socialist Party of Timor ) is a party in East Timor, which was founded in April 2001. The party is regarded as Marxist- Leninist. Goal is through a peaceful development of a socialist, classless society in East Timor that is free from any colonialism, imperialism, domination and exploitation. The PST cares primarily about the situation of the workers and peasants.
Members
Party chairman was temporarily Nelson Correira, a Marxist activist with ties to the Indonesian PRD. He graduated in Agriculture at the University of Jember in East Java and is the son of former manager ( Bupati ) of the city 's seed, and head of the Department of Tourism during the Indonesian occupation. The Deputy Chairman is Mericio Hornay dos Reis. Currently the party president, speaker and thought leader is the party Avelino Coelho da Silva. He joined the 2007 presidential election as a candidate, but resigned after the first round on April 9, with only 2.06% of the votes from. The Office of the Secretary General took over from Silva Pedro Sarmento. Deputy Secretary General Antonio Lopes Maher.
History
The PST is a spin-off of FRETILIN. In 1990, da Silva them as Associação Socialista Timorense AST in Indonesia. It should appeal to both Timorese students, as well as Indonesian workers and had its center in Jakarta and other Indonesian cities where East Timorese studied and worked. AST 1998 was converted into the PST.
The PST was a member of the umbrella organization of the Timorese Resistance, the CNRT and also represented in the National Council under the administration by the United Nations. On 10 and 11 February 2000, the PST held in Dili their first National Congress. She is represented in many districts and focuses its work on traditional FRETILIN areas, such Soibada and Aileu. Some cooperative farms were established.
Supported PST initially always the FRETILIN government Marí Alkatiri, so abolish religious instruction in state schools in an attempt, she went during the unrest in East Timor in 2006 to distance the ruling party and turned to the critics under José Ramos -Horta and Xanana Gusmão to. After the PST failed in the parliamentary elections of 30 June 2007, the three-percent hurdle, though surprisingly PST -General da Silva was Secretary of State for Energy in Gusmão government.
In July 2007, the PST joined with five other parties, who had also failed in the parliamentary elections at the three- percent threshold together to League Democrática Progressiva LDP. The LDP is intended for very different ideological and program participants as a political platform outside parliament.
In the first parliamentary elections on 30 August 2001, the PST received 1.78% of the vote and a total of 88 seats in the parliament of East Timor. The only Member of the National Parliament was the former chairman Pedro dos Martires da Costa (former member of the Standing Council of the CNRT ).
In the parliamentary elections on 30 June 2007, the PST received only 3,982 votes, representing 0.96 % of the valid votes, and failed it clearly at the new 3 - % hurdle. The greatest support she found in the district of Viqueque, where she received 699 votes ( 2.11% ).
Also in 2012 failed the PST at the three- percent threshold, even if they had improved significantly with 2.41% ( 11,379 votes) in respect of its results for 2007. About 3% they received in the districts of Bobonaro ( 3.38% ), Ermera ( 5.77% ), Manatuto (3.98 %), Manufahi (4.55 %) and Oecusse ( 4.33% ).
Party and Program
On the structure of the party include a politburo, a central committee with 82 members, and party organizations of Labour, Women and Youth. In addition, the party newspaper Vanguarda is published irregularly. Connections to Timorese unions exist. The PST has different international relations, as the Communist Party of Portugal, the Dutch Open, the Australian Democratic Socialist Party Partai Rakyat Demokratik and the Indonesian. Connections to Abílio Araújo and his PNT also be denied as a hostile attitude towards the church. Its members are mainly young people, but also some old members of the left wing of Falintil and FRETILIN.
The PST criticized the introduction of Portuguese as an official language alongside Tetum, as most Timorese do not speak. The PST favored Tetum as the sole official language with Bahasa Indonesia as a supplement. Portuguese is intended as a working language. 2001 English and Portuguese were still welcomed for a transitional phase, with further development of the Tetums.
The democratic multi-party system is supported by the PST. More points of the party program are a free access to education, human rights, including the abolition of all classes, the right to work and workers' rights, free trade unions, equal pay for equal work, the prohibition of child labor, discrimination law and equality between men and women, prohibition of prostitution and polygamy, right to housing, development of agriculture as the base of the economy and Mini -credit schemes for rural areas, equitable distribution of fertile land and expropriation of large estates, religious freedom, including the traditional belief in Timor, a free and general vehicle accessible health care system, freedom of press and free access to information, environmental protection, development of tourism, prohibition of imprisonment of ten years, target of prison sentences should be the rehabilitation of criminals and good relations with neighboring countries in the Asia -Pacific region and to the community of Portuguese -speaking countries.