Minister of Transport and Communications (East Timor)
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| Ministry of Transport and Communications | |
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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 Transport and Communications |
The Minister of Transport and Communications (Portuguese: Ministro dos Transportes e Comunicações, Tetum: Ministru Transportes no Komunikasoins) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
Functions[edit]
Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:
- to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Transport and Communications;
- 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[edit]
The incumbent Minister of Transport and Communications is Miguel Marques Gonçalves.[2][3]
List of ministers[edit]
The 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 | 4 years, 344 days | ||||
| Minister of Transport and Communications | II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | ||||||
| Minister of Transport, Communications and Public Works | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 26 July 2005 | ||||||
| Minister of Transport and Communications | 26 July 2005 | 25 June 2006 | |||||||
| 4 | Inácio Moreira | 
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25 June 2006 | 10 July 2006 | 1 year, 44 days | ||||
| II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | |||||||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | |||||||
| 5 | Independent | Pedro Lay | 
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Minister of Infrastructure | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 7 years, 192 days | |
| Minister of Transport and Communications | V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | ||||||
| 6 | PD | Gastão Francisco de Sousa | 
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Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications | VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 2 years, 211 days | |
| Independent | |||||||||
| Vacant | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | |||||
| 7 | KHUNTO | José Agustinho da Silva | 
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Minister of Transport and Communications | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 1 July 2023 | 5 years, 9 days | |
| 11 | CNRT | Miguel Marques Gonçalves | 
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Minister of Transport and Telecommunications | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 303 days | |
References[edit]
- ^ a b
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ 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 Transport and Communications – official site
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