Minister of Finance (East Timor)

The Minister of Finance (Portuguese: Ministro das Finanças, Tetum: Ministru Finansas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Finance.

Minister of Finance
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Incumbent
Rui Augusto Gomes
since 23 November 2020
Ministry of Finance
StyleMinister
(informal)
His Excellency
(formal, diplomatic)
Member ofConstitutional Government
Reports toPrime Minister
AppointerPresident of East Timor
(following proposal by the Prime Minister of East Timor)
Inaugural holder
  • Juvenal Maria de Fátima Inácio Sera Key
  • (1975)
  • Michael Francino
  • (2000)
Formation1975 / 2000
WebsiteMinistry of Finance

Functions

Under the Constitution of East Timor, the Minister has the power and the duty:

  1. to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Finance;
  2. 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 is Rui Augusto Gomes.[2] He is assisted by António Freitas, Deputy Minister of Finance.[note 1][3][4][5]

List of Ministers

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 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 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 VI Constitutional
(Araújo)		 16 February 2015 15 September 2017 2 years, 211 days
7 Independent Rui Augusto Gomes VII Constitutional
(Alkatiri)		 15 September 2017 22 June 2018 280 days
(acting) CNRT Sara Lobo Brites VIII Constitutional
(Ruak)		 22 June 2018 29 May 2020 1 year, 342 days
8 Fretilin Fernando Hanjam VIII Constitutional
(Ruak)
(restructured)		 29 May 2020 5 November 2020 134 days
(acting) Independent Sara Lobo Brites 5 November 2020 23 November 2020 18 days
(7) Independent Rui Augusto Gomes 23 November 2020 Incumbent 2 years, 177 days

References

Footnote
  1. 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
  1. "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 25 March 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Lú Olo swearing-in of the New Minister of Finance Rui Gomes". Tatoli website. Tatoli. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. "Swearing-In and organic structure of the Eight Constitutional Government". Government of Timor-Leste. 24 June 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  4. Martins, Filomeno (22 March 2022). "'Lú Olo' calls on newly appointed cabinet members to better serve Timorese people". Tatoli. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. "Swearing-in of the four new members of Government". Government of Timor-Leste. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.

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