IX Constitutional Government of East Timor

East Timorese cabinet led by Xanana Gusmão

1 Prime Minister
2 Deputy Prime Ministers
19 Ministers
10 Deputy Ministers
15 Secretaries of State

Member partiesCNRT–PDStatus in legislatureMajority

37 / 65 (57%)

HistoryElection(s)2023PredecessorVIII Constitutional Government

The IX Constitutional Government (Portuguese: VIII Governo Constitucional, Tetum: VIII Governu Konstitusionál) is the ninth and incumbent Constitutional Government (administration or cabinet) under the Constitution of East Timor. It was formed on 1 July 2023, and is led by Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. It is his second term after 2007 to 2015^[1]

Composition

The government is made up of Ministers, Deputy Ministers^{[note 1]} and Secretaries of State, as follows:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Ministers

	Minister	Portfolio
CNRT	Xanana Gusmão	Prime Minister CNRT leader
CNRT	Francisco Kalbuadi Lay	Deputy Prime Minister Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs Minister of Tourism and Environment
PD	Mariano "Assanami" Lopes	Deputy Prime Minister Coordinating Minister of Rural Development Affairs PD leader
CNRT	Ágio Pereira	Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
CNRT	Bendito Freitas [de]	Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
CNRT	Santina Viegas Cardoso	Minister of Finance
Independent	Amândio Benevides [de]	Minister of Justice
CNRT	Dulce de Jesus Soares	Minister of Education
CNRT	José Honório da Costa Pereira Jerónimo [de]	Minister of Higher Education, Science and Culture
CNRT	Tomás do Rosário Cabral [de]	Minister of State Administration
CNRT	Élia António de Araújo dos Reis Amaral [de]	Minister of Health
CNRT	Verónica das Dores [de]	Minister of Social Solidarity and Inclusion
CNRT	Gil da Costa Monteiro "Oan Soru" [de]	Minister of National Liberation Fighter Affairs
CNRT	Samuel Marçal [de]	Minister of Public Works
CNRT	Miguel Marques Gonçalves [de]	Minister of Transport and Communications
PD	Filipus Nino Pereira [de]	Minister of Commerce and Industry
CNRT	Marcos da Cruz [de]	Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry
Independent	Pedro Klamar Fuik [de]	Minister of Defense
CNRT	Francisco da Costa Monteiro [de]	Minister of Petroleum and Minerals
CNRT	Francisco da Costa Guterres [de]	Minister of the Interior
CNRT	Nélio Isaac Sarmento [de]	Minister of Youth, Sport, Art and Culture
PD	Gastão de Sousa [de]	Minister of Strategic Investment

Deputy Ministers

	Deputy Minister^{[note 1]}	Portfolio
CNRT	Adérito Hugo da Costa [de]	Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
CNRT	Hélder Lopes [de]	Deputy Minister for Health
CNRT	Milena Maria da Costa Rangel [de]	Deputy Minister for ASEAN affairs
CNRT	Paulo dos Remédios [de]	Deputy Minister for Institutional Empowerment
CNRT	José dos Reis Magno [de]	Deputy Minister for Strengthening Health Institutions
	Júlio do Carmo [de]	Deputy Minister of Infrastructure
CNRT	Jacinto Rigoberto Gomes de Deus [de]	Deputy Minister of State Administration
PD	Augusto Junior Trindade [de]	Deputy Minister of Commerce
Independent	Céu Brites [de]	Deputy Minister of Solidarity, Social, and Inclusion
PD	Flávio Brandão [de]	Deputy Minister of Hospital Operations

Secretaries of State

	Secretary of State	Portfolio
PD	Elvina Sousa Carvalho [de]	Secretary of State for Equality
Independent	Expedito Dias Ximenes [de]	Secretary of State for Social Communications
CNRT	Jaime Xavier Lopes [de]	Secretary of State for Land and Property
CNRT	Domingos Lopes Lemos [de]	Secretary of State for High School and Technical Schools
	Santos Noronha	Secretary of State for Electricity, Water, and Sanitation
	Jorge Soares Cristóvão	Secretary of State for Arts and Culture
CNRT	Domingos dos Santos da Conceição	Secretary of State for Fisheries
	José Vieira de Araújo	Secretary of State for Livestock
PD	Ferdinando Vieira	Secretary of State for Forestry
CNRT	Arsénio Pereira da Silva [de]	Secretary of State for Cooperatives
CNRT	Rogério Araújo Mendonça	Secretary of State for Vocational Training and Employment
	Mateus dos Santos Talo	Secretary of State for Rural Development
	Germano Santa Brites Dias	Secretary of State for Toponomy and State Urban Organizations
	Domingos Mariano Reis	Secretary of State for Civil Protection
	César da Silva dos Santos "Merak"	Secretary of State for Veterans

References

Footnote

^ ^a ^b The Constitution of East Timor provides, in sections 104 and 105, for the appointment of officials referred to in its English language version as "Deputy Ministers". In other English language publications, those officials are commonly referred to as "Vice Ministers", even though the word "Vice", in context, arguably has a different meaning in English from the word "Deputy". In this article, the constitutional expression "Deputy" is used.

Notes

^ "Líderes de partidos do novo Governo timorense analisam calendário da posse com PR" [Party leaders of the new Timorese Government analyze inauguration calendar with PR]. Visão (in European Portuguese). Lusa. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
^ 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.
^ Martins, Filomeno (1 July 2023). "Xanana Gusmão sworn in as Timor-Leste's new Prime Minister". Tatoli. Retrieved 3 July 2023.

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Constitutional Governments of East Timor

Precursors

RDTL

I (2002–06)
II (2006–07)
III (2007)
IV (2007–12)
V (2012–15)
VI (2015–17)
VII (2017–18)
VIII (2018–23)
IX (2023–)

Incumbent Constitutional Government

v t e Government ministers and ministries of East Timor
Ministers	Prime Minister Presidency of the Council of Ministers Agriculture and Fisheries Defense Education, Youth and Sport Finance Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Health Higher Education, Science and Culture Interior Justice Petroleum and Minerals Planning and Territory Public Works Social Solidarity and Inclusion State Administration Tourism, Trade and Industry Transport and Communications
Ministries	Presidency of the Council of Ministers Agriculture and Fisheries Defense Education, Youth and Sport Finance Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Health Higher Education, Science and Culture Interior Justice Petroleum and Minerals Planning and Territory Public Works Social Solidarity and Inclusion State Administration Tourism, Trade and Industry Transport and Communications
Incumbent Constitutional Government