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. Between June 2018 and June 2023, he was again a member of the National Parliament.

Early life and career Adriano do Nascimento was born in , Cova Lima, in the then Portuguese Timor. He studied Education and English at the University of 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 from 1996 to 1997.

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

Political career

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

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.

On 1 October 2006 at a PD party congress, Nascimento was elected as one of three vice presidents of the party.

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). 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.

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. 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. Nascimento's tenure as a minister ended when the VIII Constitutional Government took office on 22 June 2018.

During the 2018–2023 parliamentary term, Nascimento was deputy group leader of the PD and a member of the Parliamentary Committees for Constitutional Affairs and Justice (Committee A) and Infrastructure (Committee E).