Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (East Timor)
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Coat of Arms of East Timor | |
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| Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | |
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| Member of | Constitutional Government |
| Reports to | Prime Minister |
| Seat | Dili, East Timor |
| Appointer | President of East Timor (following proposal by the Prime Minister of East Timor) |
| Inaugural holder | Estanislau da Silva |
| Formation | 20 September 2001 |
| Website | Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Portuguese: Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas, Tetum: Ministru Agrikultura no Peskas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Functions
Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:
- to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries;
- 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
The incumbent Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry is Marcos da Cruz.[2][3]
List of ministers
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under one or other of its two different titles:
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Title | Government (Prime Minister) |
Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | Estanislau Aleixo da Silva | 
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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries | II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | 5 years, 251 days | |
| Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 10 July 2006 | ||||||
| II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | |||||||
| 2 | Francisco Benevides | III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | 81 days | ||||
| 3 | PD | Mariano Assanami Sabino | 
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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 7 years, 192 days | |
| V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | |||||||
| (1) | Fretilin | Estanislau Aleixo da Silva |
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VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 3 years, 126 days | ||
| VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
15 September 2017 | 22 June 2018 | |||||||
| 4 | KHUNTO | Joaquim José Gusmão dos Reis Martins | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 29 May 2020 | 1 year, 342 days | ||
| 5 | Pedro dos Reis | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
29 May 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 33 days | |||
| 6 | CNRT | Marcos da Cruz | 
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Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 301 days | |
References
- ^ a b "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 14 January 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
Media related to Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries – official site (in Tetum)
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