Minister of Defense (Timor-Leste)
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| Style |
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| Member of | the government |
| Reports to | Prime minister |
| Appointer | President (following proposal by the Prime minister) |
| Formation | 1975 / 2005 |
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| Website | Official website |
The Minister of Defense (Portuguese: Ministro da Defesa, Tetum: Ministru Defeza) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Defense.
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 Defense;
- 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 Defense is Pedro Klamar Fuik.[2][3]
List of ministers
[edit]The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) |
Term of office | Political party | Government (Prime minister(s)) |
Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||||
| Minister of National Defence | ||||||||||
| 1 | 
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Rogério Lobato (born 1949) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | Fretilin | 1975 CoM (Lobato) | |||
| 1975–1999: Indonesian occupation of East Timor | ||||||||||
| Minister of Defence | ||||||||||
| 2 | 
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Roque Félix Rodrigues (born 1949) |
26 July 2005 | 1 June 2006 | 310 days | Independent | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) | |||
| – | 
|
José Ramos-Horta (born 1949) |
1 June 2006 | 10 June 2006 | 9 days | |||||
| 3 | 10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | 313 days | II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) | ||||||
| 4 | 
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Estanislau da Silva (born 1952) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | 81 days | Fretilin | III Constitutional (da Silva) | |||
| 5 | 
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Xanana Gusmão (born 1946) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 5 years, 0 days | CNRT | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) | |||
| Minister of Defence and Security | ||||||||||
| 5 |
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Xanana Gusmão (born 1946) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | 2 years, 192 days | CNRT | V Constitutional (Gusmão) | |||
| Minister of Defence | ||||||||||
| 6 | 
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Cirilo Cristóvão (1966–2019) |
16 February 2015 | 3 October 2017 | 2 years, 229 days | CNRT | VI Constitutional (Araújo) | |||
| Minister of Defence and Security | ||||||||||
| 7 | 
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José Agostinho Sequeira (born 1959) |
3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | Fretilin | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) | |||
| Minister of Defence | ||||||||||
| 8 | 
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Filomeno da Paixão de Jesus (born 1953) |
22 June 2018 | 1 July 2023 | 5 years, 9 days | Independent | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) | |||
| 9 |
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Pedro Klamar Fuik (born 1969) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 189 days | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) | ||||
See also
[edit]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
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Media related to Ministers of Defence of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons
- Ministry of Defense – official site (in Tetum)
