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Minister of Public Works (East Timor)

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Minister of Public Works
Ministro das Obras Públicas (Portuguese) Ministru Obras Públikas (Tetum)
Coat of Arms of East Timor
Flag of East Timor
Incumbent Samuel Marçal [de] since 1 July 2023
Ministry of Public Works
Style	Minister (informal) His 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	Eduardo Carlos dos Anjos "Kaku'uk" (1975) João Viegas Carrascalão (2000)
Formation	1975 / 2000
Website	Ministry of Public Works

The Minister of Public Works (Portuguese: Ministro das Obras Públicas, Tetum: Ministru Obras Públikas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Public Works.

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 Public Works;
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 Public Works is Samuel Marçal [de].^[2]^[3]

List of ministers[edit]

The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:

No.		Minister	Title	Government (Prime Minister)	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1	Fretilin	Eduardo Carlos dos Anjos "Kaku'uk" [de]	Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications	1975 CoM (Lobato)	1 December 1975	17 December 1975	16 days
2	UDT	João Viegas Carrascalão	Minister for Infrastructure	I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello)	15 July 2000	16 July 2001	1 year, 1 day
3	Fretilin	Ovídio de Jesus Amaral [de]	Minister for Infrastructure	I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello)	16 July 2001	20 September 2001	66 days
4		César Vital Moreira [de]	Minister of Water and Public Works	II UNTAET (Alkatiri)	20 September 2001	20 May 2002	242 days
(3)		Ovídio Amaral [de]	Minister of Transport, Communications and Public Works	I Constitutional (Alkatiri)	20 May 2002	26 July 2005	3 years, 67 days
5	Independent	Odete Vítor [de]	Minister of Public Works	I Constitutional (Alkatiri)	26 July 2005	1 June 2006	2 years, 13 days
				II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta)	10 July 2006	19 May 2007
				III Constitutional (da Silva)	19 May 2007	8 August 2007
6		Pedro Lay [de]	Minister of Infrastructure	IV Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2007	8 August 2012	5 years, 0 days
7	PD	Gastão Francisco de Sousa [de]	Minister of Public Works	V Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2012	16 February 2015	5 years, 38 days
	PD (to 2016)		Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications	VI Constitutional (Araújo)	16 February 2015	15 September 2017
	Independent		Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communications	VI Constitutional (Araújo)	16 February 2015	15 September 2017
		Vacant		VII Constitutional (Alkatiri)	3 October 2017	22 June 2018	262 days
8	Independent	Salvador Soares dos Reis Pires	Minister of Public Works	VIII Constitutional (Ruak)	22 June 2018	22 March 2022	3 years, 273 days
9	PLP	Abel Pires da Silva		VIII Constitutional (Ruak)	22 March 2022	1 July 2023	1 year, 101 days
10	CNRT	Samuel Marçal [de]		IX Constitutional (Gusmão)	1 July 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 11 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.