Zita Jesus-Leito (born ) is a Curaçaoan politician. From 2017 to 2021, she was the minister for public transportation and infrastructure. She is currently a member of the

Parliament of Curaçao The Parliament of Curaçao ( pap, Parlamento di Kòrsou, nl, Staten van Curaçao) consist of 21 members, each elected for a four-year term in a general election. Curaçao president of parliament is Charetti America-Francisca. The first Parliament ...

Early life

Zita Jesus-Leito was born in either 1956 or 1957.

Career

She was a member of the Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles for a few months in 2006; a commissioner for Curaçao three times between 2004 and 2010; and a member of the

. In 2014, she was named the fifth leader of the

Real Alternative Party The Real Alternative Party ( nl, Echte Alternatieve Partij; pap, Partido Alternativa Real, PAR), formerly the Party for the Restructured Antilles ( nl, Partij voor Geherstructureerde Antillen, pap, Partido Antiá Restrukturá) until 2016, is a p ...

. In 2017, she was appointed as a minister to

Eugene Rhuggenaath From the 29th of May 2017 until the 14th of June 2021, Eugene Rhuggenaath (born 4 February 1970) was the Curaçaoan 7tPrime ministerbefore Gilmar Pisas won the 2021 elections. He previously served as Minister for Economic Development in the Koei ...

's government. In November 2020, after the completion of wheelchair-accessible infrastructure at Grote Knip Beach, members of the opposition party (

Movement for the Future of Curaçao The Movement for the Future of Curaçao ( nl, Beweging voor de Toekomst van Curaçao, pap, Movementu Futuro Kòrsou, MFK) is a political party in Curaçao, founded by Gerrit Schotte in 2010, which has 9 of the 21 seats in the Estates of Curaçao a ...

) called for her to resign, because the construction impeded normal access to the beach. As the minister for planning and transportation, she had advocated for and celebrated the infrastructure project; she admitted that it was an unlicensed project. Five months later, her party requested that she not return to parliament after her ministry ended, saying they wished for younger politicians to enter parliament. Jesus-Leito was 64 and denied the request. Her other ministerial duties included working with World Meteorological Organization hurricane commissars in their meetings.

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