Minister of the Interior (Timor-Leste)
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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) |
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| Formation | 1975 / 2000 |
| Website | Ministry of the Interior |
The Minister of the Interior (Portuguese: Ministro do Interior, Tetum: Ministru Interiór) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of the Interior.
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 the Interior;
- 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 the Interior is Francisco da Costa Guterres.[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 | Alarico Fernandes | Minister of Information, Home Affairs and Security | 1975 CoM (Lobato) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | ||
| 2 | United Nations | Jean-Christian Cady | Minister for Police and Emergency Services | I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello) |
15 July 2000 | 20 September 2001 | 1 year, 67 days | ||
| 3 | Fretilin | Antoninho Bianco | 
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Minister of Internal Administration | II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | 242 days | |
| 4 | Rogério Tiago Lobato | 
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Minister of Internal Administration (to 4 March 2003) Minister of Interior (from 6 March 2003) |
I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 1 June 2006 | 4 years, 12 days | ||
| 5 | Independent | Alcino Baris | 
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Minister of Interior | II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | 1 year, 29 days | |
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | |||||||
| 6 | CNRT | Xanana Gusmão | 
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Minister of Defense | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 7 years, 192 days | |
| Minister of Defence and Security | V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | ||||||
| 7 | Independent | Longuinhos Monteiro | 
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Minister of the Interior | VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 2 years, 211 days | |
| 8 | Fretilin | Agostinho Sequeira Somotxo | 
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Minister of Defence and Security | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | |
| (acting) | Independent | Filomeno da Paixão de Jesus | 
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Minister of the Interior | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 24 June 2020 | 2 years, 2 days | |
| 9 | PLP | Taur Matan Ruak | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
24 June 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 7 days | ||
| 10 | CNRT | Francisco da Costa Guterres |
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IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 180 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
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Media related to Ministers of the Interior of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons
- Ministry of the Interior – official site
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