Adriano do Nascimento

Adriano do Nascimento (born 12 January 1970) is an East Timorese politician, teacher and university lecturer. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD). Between 2007 and 2017, he was a member of the National Parliament of East Timor, and from October 2017 to June 2018, he was Minister in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the VII Constitutional Government of East Timor. In June 2018, he resumed his membership of the National Parliament.

Adriano do Nascimento
Nascimento in 2019
Member of the National Parliament
Assumed office
2018
Minister in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
In office
3 October 2017 (2017-10-03) – 22 June 2018 (2018-06-22)
Prime MinisterMari Alkatiri
Preceded byÁgio Pereira
Succeeded byÁgio Pereira
Member of the National Parliament
In office
2007–2017
Personal details
Born (1970-01-12) 12 January 1970
Holbelis, Cova Lima, Portuguese Timor
(now East Timor)
Political partyDemocratic Party (PD)
Alma mater

Early life and career

Nascimento was born in Holbelis, Cova Lima, in the then Portuguese Timor. He studied Education and English at the University of Nusa Cendana (Indonesian: Universitas Nusa Cendana) in Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia, and later at the Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA. Additionally, he completed training courses in Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. While in Kupang, he was president of the organization IMPETU / IMAPTIM (Tetum: Asosiasaun Estudante Timor-Leste) from 1996 to 1997.[1]

In 1997–98, Nascimento was a teacher at a pre-secondary and secondary school in Suai, Cova Lima.[1]

During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, Nascimento was active in an underground network, working in the areas of political agitation and international relations. He later joined the National Council of Maubere Resistance (Portuguese: Conselho Nacional da Resistência Maubere (CNRM)), the umbrella organization of the East Timorese resistance. Between 1998 and 2000, he was general coordinator of the East Timor Student Solidarity Council (Indonesian: Dewan Solidaritas Mahasiswa Pemuda dan Pelajar Timor Timur (DSMPTT)) in the then district of Cova Lima, which supported campaigns for the independence of East Timor. He also promoted that goal in the United States, Ireland, Great Britain, Portugal, Belgium and Spain.[1]

After the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) was established in 1999, Nascimento returned to his work as a teacher in the pre-secondary and secondary school in Suai.[1]

In 2001, Nascimento left Suai to work for the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) in Dili. Between 2002 and 2003, he was employed by the East Timorese non-governmental organization La'o Hamutuk, and focused his attention on the oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea. From then until 2006, he was engaged by the international humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services (CRS) as a project manager for the Peace Building / Dezenvolvimentu Paz program.[1] He was also a lecturer at the Universidade da Paz (UNPAZ).[2]

Political career
Nascimento in 2007

In 2000–2001, during the UN administration of East Timor, Nascimento was a member of the Cova Lima District Advisory Council.[3] In February 2001, together with Álvaro do Nascimento, he received training in leadership and local administration while visiting Suai's Australian sister city of Port Phillip.[4]

On 1 October 2006, Nascimento was elected Vice President of the PD at a party congress.[1] In the elections to East Timor's interim Constituent Assembly in 2001, Nascimento achieved 22.5% of the vote for Suai District Representative, but was defeated by the Fretilin candidate.[1][5]

In 2007, Nascimento was elected to the National Parliament, as the third candidate on the PD party list. In Parliament, he was the leader of the PD group and a member of the Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Natural Resources and Environment (Commission D) and the Commission for Infrastructure and Social Facilities (Committee G).[2]

On 30 August 2007, Nascimento who had been nominated to be appointed Secretary of State for Tourism, did not take part in the swearing-in ceremony.[6] Instead, he kept his seat in Parliament and remained leader of the PD group. According to an alleged confidential diplomatic cable by the then United States Charge d'Affaires in Dili that was allegedly later leaked to WikiLeaks:[6]

Strangely, Nascimento did not attend the swearing-in ceremony. He was PD caucus chair and is now the party's vice-president. A Westerner from Suai, he is thought by some to have instigated east versus west divisions within the party. He previously accused Mariano Sabino Lopes of naming Easterner PD members to the government, and demanded a position within it or threatened to vote in Parliament against the Alliance for a Parliamentary Majority, the parliamentary bloc to which PD belongs. Nascimento received the support of two other PD MP's: Lucas da Costa and Vital dos Santos, both westerners.

— Henry Rector, Charge d' Affaires, U.S. Embassy, Dili, East Timor, Department of State, Timor-Leste's New Cabinet Complete, Wikileaks Public Library of US Diplomacy

In the 2012 parliamentary election, Nascimento moved back to seventh place in the PD's electoral list, and was re-elected. In 2015, he took over the leadership of the PD from the late Fernando de Araújo, but later relinquished it to Mariano Sabino Lopes. From 2012 to 2016, Nascimento was Vice President of Parliament and Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Justice, Public Administration, Local Justice and Anti-Corruption (Committee A).[7] On 5 May 2016, however, he was voted out of office as Vice President of Parliament upon the termination of the coalition between the CNRT and the PD.[8]

In 2017, Nascimento was re-elected to the National Parliament, this time at number 5 in the PD list. However, on 15 September 2017 he had to give up his seat in accordance with the Constitution when he was sworn in as Minister for the Council of Ministers in the VII Constitutional Government.[9][10] As the Fretilin / PD minority government could not prevail in Parliament, President Francisco Guterres dissolved the Parliament. In the ensuing election on 12 May 2018, Nascimento was again number 5 on the PD list, and was again elected to Parliament, in which the PD initially became part of the opposition.[11] Nascimento's tenure as a Minister ended when the VIII Constitutional Government took office on 22 June 2018.[12]

As of 2019, Nascimento was Deputy Group Leader of the PD[13] and a member of the Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Questions and Justice (Committee A). He was also Deputy Chairman of the PD.[14]

References
  1. "Strutura PD 2006-2011" [Structure PD 2006-2011]. Partido Democratico. 24 October 2006. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  2. "[Profile] Adriano do Nascimento". National Parliament of East Timor (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  3. "UNTAET/NOT/2000/14 Notification: On the appointment of Members of District Advisory Councils" (PDF). Jornal da República. Government of East Timor. 31 July 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. Redefining Success and Failure: An Account of the Friendship Agreement and Ongoing Relationship Between the Communities of Port Phillip, Australia and Suai, East Timor (PDF). St Kilda, Vic: City of Port Phillip. 2003. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2013.
  5. "Strutura Lideransa Central". Democratic Party website. Democratic Party. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  6. Rector, Henry (7 September 2007). "Timor-Leste's New Cabinet Complete (Canonical ID:07DILI313_a)". Public Library of US Diplomacy. WikiLeaks. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  7. "Ficha Biografia dos Deputados: Adriano do Nascimento" [Member's Biography: Adriano do Nascimento]. National Parliament of East Timor (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  8. "Parlamento de Timor-Leste com nova mesa depois de quase dois meses de debate" [Timor-Leste Parliament with new leadership after almost two months of debate]. RTP News (in Portuguese). Lusa. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  9. "VII Governo constitucional de Timor-Leste toma hoje posse incompleto" [VII Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste takes office today incomplete]. Diário de Notícias. Lusa. 15 September 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  10. "VII Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  11. "AVISO LISTA DEFINITIVA DE CANDIDATURAS ELEIÇÃO PARLAMENTAR 12 de Maio de 2018" (PDF). Government of East Timor. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  12. "Transitional Ministerial Administration". Government of Timor-Leste. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  13. Silva, Zezito (7 January 2019). "Deputadu PN preokupa ho funsionamentu ATM BNCTL". Tatoli website (in Tetum). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  14. "Ficha Biografia dos Deputados: Adriano do Nascimento" [Member's Biography: Adriano do Nascimento]. National Parliament of East Timor (in Portuguese). Retrieved 10 July 2019.

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