Mário Viegas Carrascalão
| Mário Viegas Carrascalão | |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor | |
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In office March 5, 2009 – September 8, 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Xanana Gusmão |
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Governor of East Timor under Indonesian occupation |
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In office September 18, 1983 – September 18, 1992 |
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| President | Suharto |
| Preceded by | Guilherme Maria Gonçalves |
| Succeeded by | José Abílio Osório Soares |
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Mário Viegas Carrascalão May 12, 1937 Venilale, Baucau District, Portuguese Timor |
| Died | May 19, 2017 (aged 80) Dili, East Timor |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party (since 2000) |
Mário Viegas Carrascalão (May 12, 1937 – May 19, 2017) was an East Timorese politician and diplomat. Carrascalão, a founder of the Timorese Democratic Union [UDT) in 1974 and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 2000, served as the Governor of East Timor from 1983 to 1992 during the Indonesian occupation of the country. However, he re-joined the East Timorese government following the 1999 independence referendum and the transition to independence. He later served as a Deputy Prime Minister within the IV Constitutional Government of then-Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão from 2009 to 2010.
Carrascalão was born in Venilale, Baucau District, Portuguese Timor, on May 12, 1937. He attended elementary school and Colegio-Liceu Dr. Vieira Machado in Dili. He then went to Portugal to finish high school at Liceu Camões in Lisbon and attend college. He graduated from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia in Lisbon in 1967 and the Technical University of Lisbon (now part of the University of Lisbon) in 1968.
He returned Portuguese Timor after university, where he headed the territory's Forestry and Agriculture Department.
In 1974, Carrascalão founded the Timorese Democratic Union [UDT) with Domingos Oliveira, César Mouzinho, António Nascimento, Francisco Lopes da Cruz, and Jacinto dos Reis in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal.
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