Francisco Jerónimo

On 29 May 2020, following a change in the governing coalition, and the admission of Fretilin to the VIII Constitutional Government, Jerónimo was sworn in as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Social Communication.

As of 2009, Jerónimo was a member of the National AIDS Commission of East Timor. From 2016 to 2020, he was Consul General of East Timor in Kupang, Indonesia. In February 2018, he was elected as the new President of the East Timor Football Federation (Portuguese: Federação de Futebol de Timor-Leste (FFTL)), the governing body of football in East Timor.

In the 2007 Parliamentary election, Jerónimo was re-elected from 21st place on the FRETILIN list. During the subsequent legislative period, he was a member of the Committee for Health, Education and Culture (Committee F). In the 2012 parliamentary election, Jerónimo did not stand as a candidate.

In 2001, Jerónimo was elected from 13th place on Fretilin's list of candidates to the Constituent Assembly of East Timor, from which the National Parliament emerged in 2002. In the Constituent Assembly, he spoke out against including a definition of the age group of children within the national constitution, and argued that it be specified in legislation. The definition was not included in the constitution. In the National Parliament, Jerónimo was Vice President of the Committee for the Eradication of Poverty, Rural and Regional Development and Gender Equality (Committee E).

Francisco Martins da Costa Pereira Jerónimo (born 18 April 1963) is an East Timorese politician and academic, and a member of the Fretilin political party. He is the incumbent Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Social Communication, serving since May 2020 under the VIII Constitutional Government of East Timor led by Taur Matan Ruak. Previously, he was a Member of the National Parliament of East Timor.