The Minister of Public Works (Portuguese: Ministro das Obras Públicas, Tetum: Ministru Obras Públikas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Public Works.
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since 1 July 2023 | |
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| Member of | Constitutional Government |
| Reports to | Prime Minister |
| Appointer | President of East Timor (following proposal by the Prime Minister of East Timor) |
| Inaugural holder | |
| Formation | 1975 / 2000 |
| Website | Ministry of Public Works |
Functions
editUnder the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:
- to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Public Works;
- to ensure relations between the Government and the other organs of the State in the area of responsibility of the Ministry.[1]
Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a government statute, the Minister is also required, together with the Prime Minister, to sign the statute.[1]
Incumbent
editThe incumbent Minister of Public Works is Samuel Marçal.[2][3]
List of ministers
editThe following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Title | Government (Prime Minister) |
Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | Eduardo Carlos dos Anjos "Kaku'uk" | Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications | 1975 CoM (Lobato) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | ||
| 2 | UDT | João Viegas Carrascalão | 
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Minister for Infrastructure | I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello) |
15 July 2000 | 16 July 2001 | 1 year, 1 day | |
| 3 | Fretilin | Ovídio de Jesus Amaral | 16 July 2001 | 20 September 2001 | 66 days | ||||
| 4 | César Vital Moreira | Minister of Water and Public Works | II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | 242 days | |||
| (3) | Ovídio Amaral | Minister of Transport, Communications and Public Works | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 26 July 2005 | 3 years, 67 days | |||
| 5 | Independent | Odete Vítor | Minister of Public Works | 26 July 2005 | 1 June 2006 | 2 years, 13 days | |||
| II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | |||||||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | |||||||
| 6 | Pedro Lay | 
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Minister of Infrastructure | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 5 years, 0 days | ||
| 7 | PD | Gastão Francisco de Sousa | 
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Minister of Public Works | V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | 5 years, 38 days | |
| PD (to 2016) | Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications | VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | |||||
| Independent | |||||||||
| Vacant | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | |||||
| 8 | Independent | Salvador Soares dos Reis Pires | 
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Minister of Public Works | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 22 March 2022 | 3 years, 273 days | |
| 9 | PLP | Abel Pires da Silva | 
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22 March 2022 | 1 July 2023 | 1 year, 101 days | |||
| 10 | CNRT | Samuel Marçal | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 127 days | |||
References
edit- ^ a b "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Martins, Filomeno (30 June 2023). "The list of structure of IX Constitutional Government announced in Official Gazette". Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ Sousa, Nelson de (1 July 2023). "PR Horta sei akompaña serbisu IX Governu" [President Horta will accompany the work of the IX Government] (in Tetum). Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
External links
edit- Ministry of Public Works – official site
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