Minister of Finance (Timor-Leste)
| Minister of Finance | |
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| Ministry of Finance | |
| Style | Minister (informal) Her Excellency (formal, diplomatic) |
| 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 Finance |
The Minister of Finance (Portuguese: Ministra das Finanças, Tetum: Ministra Finansas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Finance.
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 Finance;
- 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 is Santina Viegas Cardoso.[2][3]
List of ministers
[edit]The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Government (Prime Minister) |
Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | Juvenal Maria de Fátima Inácio Sera Key | 1975 CoM (Lobato) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | ||
| 2 | United Nations | Michael Francino | I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello) |
15 July 2000 | 20 September 2001 | 1 year, 67 days | ||
| 3 | Independent | Fernanda Mesquita Borges | 
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II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 23 April 2002 | 215 days | |
| 4 | Fretilin | Maria Madalena Brites Boavida | 30 April 2002 | 20 May 2002 | 5 years, 100 days | |||
| I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 10 July 2006 | ||||||
| II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | ||||||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | ||||||
| 5 | Independent | Emília Pires | 
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IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 7 years, 192 days | |
| V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | ||||||
| 6 | Santina Cardoso |
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VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 2 years, 211 days | ||
| 7 | Independent | Rui Augusto Gomes | 
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VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
15 September 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 280 days | |
| (acting) | CNRT | Sara Lobo Brites | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 29 May 2020 | 1 year, 342 days | |
| 8 | Fretilin | Fernando Hanjam | 
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VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
29 May 2020 | 5 November 2020 | 134 days | |
| (acting) | Independent | Sara Lobo Brites |
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5 November 2020 | 23 November 2020 | 18 days | ||
| (7) | Independent | Rui Augusto Gomes | 
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23 November 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 2 years, 220 days | ||
| (6) | CNRT | Santina Viegas Cardoso |
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IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 177 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 Finance – official site (in English)
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