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{{Short description|2nd Prime Minister of East Timor (2002–06; 2017–18)}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mari Bin Amude Alkatiri
| image
| caption = Alkatiri in 2020
| office =
| president = [[Francisco Guterres]]
| term_start = 15 September 2017
| term_end = 22 June 2018
| predecessor = [[Rui Maria de Araújo]]
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| president1 = [[Xanana Gusmão]]
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| term_end1 = 26 June 2006
| predecessor1 = [[António Duarte Carvarino]] (1979)
| successor1 = [[José Ramos-Horta]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|11|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dili]], [[Portuguese
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| party = [[Fretilin]]
| alma_mater = [[Eduardo Mondlane University]]
| signature = Marí bin Amude Alkatiri Signature.svg
}}
'''Mari bin Amude Alkatiri''', [[Order of Prince Henry|GCIH]] ({{lang-ar|مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري}} ''{{transl|ar|DIN|Mar'ī bin Amūdah al-Kaṯīrī}}'') (born 26 November 1949) is a Timorese politician and the current [[Prime Minister of East Timor|Prime Minister]] of [[East Timor]]. He was also Prime Minister from May 2002 until his resignation on 26 June 2006 following weeks of [[2006 East Timor crisis|political unrest]] in the country.<ref name="resignation">[[Agence France-Presse]] (2006). [http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19591368%255E661,00.html East Timor PM quits]. Retrieved 26 June 2006.</ref> He is the Secretary-General of the [[Fretilin]] party, as well as President of the Special Administrative Region of [[Oecusse]].▼
▲'''Mari bin Amude Alkatiri'''
He is [[Hadhrami people|Hadhrami]] [[Arab]] by ethnicity and comes from the [[Kathiri|Al-Kathiri]] tribe, a branch of which was also the Royal family of [[Kathiri|Hadhramaut]] that is now part of [[Yemen]]. He is one of very few Muslim politicians in a country that is 97% [[Christian]]. The main issues facing his second term as prime minister are environmental conservation, cultural conservation, [[accession of East Timor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations]], free public education and public health services, and building the country's economy, notably the lagging services and manufacturing sectors.▼
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==Life==
{{BLP sources section|date=June 2020}}
Alkatiri's ancestors were [[Hadhrami people|Hadhrami]] merchants who lived in [[Portuguese Timor]], he was born in [[Dili]], and had 10 other siblings. He left East Timor in 1970 for post-secondary studies in [[Portuguese Angola]], returning to East Timor as one of the founders of Fretilin, becoming its Minister for Political Affairs. Following Fretilin's declaration of independence for the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on 28 November 1975, Alkatiri was sent overseas as part of a high-level diplomatic mission. After [[Indonesia]] invaded the nascent nation on 7 December 1975, Alkatiri and his colleagues were unable to return, and he established the headquarters of the Fretilin External Delegation in [[Maputo]], [[Mozambique]].
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On 20 May 2002, the United Nations Transitional Administration transferred sovereignty to the first elected Parliament and Government of East Timor. As Secretary-General of the Fretilin Party, which had received a large majority of the vote in Parliamentary elections the previous August, Alkatiri was chosen as the first Prime Minister of the newly independent nation.
In May 2006, his government faced [[2006 East Timor crisis|near-civil war conditions]] when approximately half of the country's security forces rebelled amidst scenes of rioting and looting in the country's capital, Dili. On 21 June 2006, [[President of East Timor|President]] [[Xanana Gusmão]] called for Alkatiri to resign or else he would, as allegations that Alkatiri had ordered a [[Guerrilla warfare|hit squad]] to threaten and kill his political opponents led to mass backlash.<ref>ABC News Online (2006). [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1668821.htm Alkatiri's resignation 'would paralyse Govt']. Retrieved 25 June 2006.</ref> Senior members of the Fretilin party met on 25 June to discuss Alkatiri's future as the
Despite this vote of confidence, Alkatiri resigned on 26 June 2006, to end the uncertainty. In announcing this he said, "I declare I am ready to resign my position as prime minister of the government… so as to avoid the resignation of His Excellency the President of the Republic Xanana Gusmão."<ref name="resignation" />
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The 'hit squad' accusations against Alkatiri were subsequently rejected by a UN Commission, which criticised Gusmão for making inflammatory statements during the crisis, and called Police Chief Paulo Martins's abandonment of his post a 'serious dereliction of duty'.<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste |date= 2 October 2006 |url= http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/COITimorLeste.pdf |format=PDF |publisher=Ohchr.org}}</ref>
In the [[2007 East Timorese parliamentary election
Alkatiri said on 1 August 2007 that he would be Fretilin's candidate for prime minister, while criticising the record of his rival for the position, Gusmão, who had left the presidency and was elected to parliament at the head of a new party, the [[National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction]] (CNRT). Fretilin won more seats than any other party in parliament, including the CNRT, but a post-electoral coalition led by Gusmão holds a majority of seats.<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/01/asia/AS-GEN-East-Timor-Government.php "East Timor's ousted prime minister wants his job back"], Associated Press (''International Herald Tribune''), 1 August 2007.</ref> In a statement, Alkatiri called for a national unity government comprising all parties elected to parliament, saying that this would bring stability.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Fretilin-seeks-inclusive-E-Timor-govt/2007/08/02/1185648038461.html "Fretilin seeks 'inclusive' E Timor govt"], AAP (theage.com.au), 2 August 2007.</ref> With the parties unable to reach an agreement to form a government together, President [[José Ramos-Horta]] announced on 6 August that he had decided that the CNRT-led coalition would form the government, with Gusmão at its head. Alkatiri denounced Ramos-Horta's decision as unconstitutional, and angry Fretilin supporters reacted to Ramos-Horta's announcement with violent protests, although Alkatiri said that the party would fight the decision through legal means<ref>[http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2FE8F393-CCA7-4B5F-ABA3-19B2F2B5E59B.htm "Riots after Gusmao named E Timor PM"], Al Jazeera, 7 August 2007.</ref> and would encourage people to protest and practice civil disobedience.<ref name=People>Lindsay Murdoch, [http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/fretilin-threatens-peoplepower-coup/2007/08/08/1186530444727.html "Fretilin threatens 'people-power' coup"], theage.com.au, 9 August 2007.</ref> The party subsequently backed away from its threat of legal action.<ref>[http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/15/2006261.htm?section=justin "Planned challenge to E Timor Govt dropped"], AFP (abc.net.au), 15 August 2007.</ref>
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==Assessment==
Alkatiri has been described as a
==Honours==
*[[File:PRT_Order_of_Prince_Henry_-_Grand_Cross_BAR.png|80px]] Grand-Cross of the [[Order of Prince Henry]], [[Portugal]] (February 14, 2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/?idc=154&list=1|title=CIDADÃOS ESTRANGEIROS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS
==References==
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{{wikinews|East Timor Prime Minister resigns}}
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041126171620/http://www.pm.gov.tp/ Prime Minister's Office]
* [http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19591368%255E661,00.html ''Melbourne Herald Sun'' "East Timor PM resigns" 26 June 2006]
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