João Viegas Carrascalão

João Viegas Carrascalão (11 August 1945 – 18 February 2012; Dili, East Timor) was an East Timorese politician.[1] He was one of the candidates in the April 2007 presidential election in East Timor.

João Viegas Carrascalão

He studied topography and surveying in Luanda and specialized in cartography in Switzerland. He is president of the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) which he also co-founded. He supervised the August 11, 1975 coup which eventually started the civil war. The latter forced the governor, Mario Lemos Pires, to flee as well as the Portuguese contingent stationed on the nearing island of Ataúro. Consequently, Carrascalão moved to Australia and resided there throughout the Indonesian occupation. He integrated the leading agencies of the CNRT. He moved back when East Timor's independence was finally given.

In the 2007 presidential election, he took eighth and last place with 1.72% of the vote.[2] He later served as East Timor's ambassador to South Korea from 2009 until his death in 2012.

He was the Director of Department of Geographical and Cadastral Surveys during the Portuguese Administration of Timor and was Minister of Infrastructure during the Transitional Government of East Timor by the UNO (UNTAET).

References
  1. "Heroic envoy to Korea dies in East Timor". The Korea Herald. 2012-02-21. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  2. Results of 2007 presidential election Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, East Timor Election Commission website.


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