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 Timor-Leste heading the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Functions
Under the Constitution of Timor-Leste, 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 | 
|
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 | 
|
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 |
|
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 | 
|
VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 29 May 2020 | 1 year, 342 days | ||
| 5 | Pedro dos Reis | 
|
VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
29 May 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 33 days | |||
| 6 | CNRT | Marcos da Cruz | 
|
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 239 days | |
References
- ^ a b "Constitution of Timor-Leste, 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)
