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Timorese Labor Party
The Timorese Labor Party ( pt, Partido Trabalhista Timorense, abbreviated as PT), or Trabalhista for short (''in other sources also Partido Trabalhista Timorense PTT''), is one of the five parties in East Timor founded as early as 1974. The party describes itself as democratic and socialist, comparable to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It has its headquarters in Dili on ''Rua de Bﾃｩ Fonte'' in ''Bairo Formosa'' (Gricenfor). History The party was founded on September 5, 1974, by the now deceased Paulo Freitas da Silva ''Albano'', Domingos da Conceiﾃｧﾃ｣o Pereira and ''Alpido Abrﾃ｣o Martins''. The party favored independence from the then colonial power Portugal, but argued for a gradual disengagement with further ties to Portugal. It saw itself as a representative of the workers and an alternative to the supposedly communist Fretilin. At its founding, the party consisted of only ten members, it remained small and insignificant. The colonial administration even refused to recogniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ］gela Freitas
ﾃ］gela Freitas is an East Timorese politician, who is the leader of the Timorese Labor Party and ran in the 2017 East Timorese presidential election. Biography While a student, ﾃ］gela Freitas was tortured by the Indonesian Army during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. In 1988, she worked for the Institute of Human Rights within Indonesia, moving on to work for Amnesty International in 1989 as secretary of human rights. In the 1990s she fled to Australia, where she studied at the University of Queensland. Graduating with qualifications in political science and medicine, she started work at a hospital in Brisbane. This included a secondment into the Royal Australian Navy, where she worked on board a patrol vessel which intercepted refugee boats. Following the end of the Indonesian occupation in 1999, she returned to East Timor. Freitas became the leader of the Timorese Labor Party, a party founded in 1974 by her father Paulo Freitas. In 2001, she was placed in a men's pris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
