The Minister of Petroleum and Minerals (Portuguese: Ministro do Petróleo e Minerais, Tetum: Ministru Petróleu no Minerais) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals.
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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 | Mari Alkatiri |
| Website | Ministry of Petroleum and Minerals |
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 Petroleum and Minerals;
- 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 Petroleum and Minerals is Francisco da Costa Monteiro.[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 | Mari Alkatiri | 
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Minister of Natural and Mineral Resources, and Energy Policy | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
26 July 2005 | 26 June 2006 | 335 days | |
| 2 | José Teixeira | 
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II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | 1 year, 29 days | |||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | |||||||
| 3 | CNRT | Xanana Gusmão | 
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Prime Minister | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 5 years, 0 days | |
| 4 | Alfredo Pires | 
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Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources | V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | 5 years, 38 days | ||
| VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | |||||||
| 5 (a) | PD | Mariano Assanami Sabino | 
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Minister for Mineral Resources | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
15 September 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 280 days | |
| 5 (b) | Fretilin | Hernâni Filomena Coelho da Silva | 
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Minister of Petroleum | |||||
| (acting) | CNRT | Hermenegildo Ágio Pereira | 
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Minister of Petroleum and Minerals | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 12 May 2020 | 1 year, 325 days | |
| 6 | Fretilin | Víctor da Conceição Soares | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
24 June 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 7 days | ||
| 7 | CNRT | Francisco da Costa Monteiro | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 307 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 Petroleum and Minerals – official site (in English)
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