Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries | |
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Portuguese: Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas Tetum: Ministru Agrikultura no Peskas | |
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | |
Style |
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Member of | Constitutional Government |
Reports to | Prime Minister |
Seat | Dili, East Timor |
Appointer |
President of East Timor (following proposal by the Prime Minister of East Timor) |
Inaugural holder | Estanislau da Silva |
Formation | 20 September 2001 |
Website | Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
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 East Timor heading the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:
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]
The incumbent Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry is Marcos da Cruz . [2] [3]
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 | |
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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 | 332 days |
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