Minister of Transport and Communications (Timor-Leste)
| Minister of Transport and Communications | |
|---|---|
| |
 | |
 | |
 | |
| Ministry of Transport and Communications | |
| Style |
|
| 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
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
The incumbent Minister of Transport and Communications is Miguel Marques Gonçalves.[2][3]
List of ministers
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 | 
|
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 | 
|
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 | 
|
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 | 
|
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 | 
|
Minister of Transport and Communications | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 1 July 2023 | 5 years, 9 days | |
| 11 | CNRT | Miguel Marques Gonçalves | 
|
Minister of Transport and Telecommunications | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 177 days | |
References
- ^ 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
- Ministry of Transport and Communications – official site
