Armanda Berta dos Santos

Armanda Berta dos Santos (born 11 October 1974) is an East Timorese politician, and the leader of the Kmanek Haburas Unidade Nasional Timor Oan (KHUNTO) political party.

[7] On 22 June 2018, she was sworn in as Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion in the new VIII Constitutional Government, and therefore automatically had to give up her parliamentary seat.

[13] Early the following month, at a ceremony held in Suco Comoro, Dom Aleixo administrative post, Dili, Santos presided over the official launch of the payment of monetary support to households under the government's COVID-19 pandemic response.

[15][16] In an election analysis published by the University of Melbourne, Australia, she was described as: "... an enigmatic candidate ... [whose] presence and influence ... is held up by some Timorese as a testament to the greater diversity of gender, class and indeed 'traditional' Timorese culture allowed voice ...... her political persona is marked by a potential intersecting disadvantage: her gender, her socio-economic status and rural background mark her out as an outsider from the usual Dili political and civil society elite.

[2] In the ensuing first round of the election process, she finished third out of the 16 candidates, with 56,690 votes (8.7% of the total);[17] that result was described by another commentator as part of a "... power transition from the old to younger generations, and from men to women ..."[18] Santos's tenure as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister ended when the IX Constitutional Government took office on 1 July 2023.