Minister of Justice (East Timor)
| Minister of Justice | |
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| Ministry of Justice | |
| 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 | |
| Formation | 1975 / 2000 |
| Website | Ministry of Justice |
The Minister of Justice (Portuguese: Ministro da Justiça, Tetum: Ministru Justisa) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Justice.
Functions[edit]
The Minister has the power and the duty:
- to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Justice;
- to ensure relations between the Government and the other organs of the State in the area of responsibility of the Ministry.[1]
Falling within those powers and duties are responsibilities such as overseeing the recruitment of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders.[2]
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 Amândio Benevides.[3][4]
List of ministers[edit]
The following individuals have been appointed as Minister of Justice:[5]
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Government (Prime Minister) |
Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | António Duarte Carvarino Mau Lear | 1975 CoM (Lobato) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | ||
| 2 | United Nations | Gita Honwana-Welch | I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello) |
15 July 2000 | 20 September 2001 | 1 year, 67 days | ||
| 3 | Fretilin | Ana Maria Pessoa | 
|
II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | 1 year, 180 days | |
| I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 19 March 2003 | ||||||
| 4 | Domingos Sarmento | 
|
19 March 2003 | 10 July 2006 | 4 years, 142 days | |||
| II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | ||||||
| III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | ||||||
| 5 | PSD | Lúcia Lobato | 
|
IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | March 2012 (suspended) |
5 years, 0 days (incl. suspension) | |
| (acting) | CNRT | Ivo Valente | 
|
March 2012 | 8 August 2012 | c. 145 days | ||
| 6 | Dionísio Babo Soares | 
|
V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | 2 years, 192 days | ||
| 7 | Ivo Valente |
|
VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 3 October 2017 | 2 years, 229 days | ||
| 8 | UDT | Maria Ângela Guterres Viegas Carrascalão | 
|
VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | |
| 9 | Independent | Manuel Cárceres da Costa | 
|
VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 22 March 2022 | 3 years, 273 days | |
| 10 | Tiago Amaral Sarmento | 
|
22 March 2022 | 1 July 2023 | 1 year, 101 days | |||
| 11 | CNRT | Amândio Benevides | 
|
IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | 20 January 2024 | 203 days | |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Constitution of East Timor, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Silva, Kelly Cristiane da; Simião, Daniel Schroeter (2007). Timor-Leste por trás do palco: cooperação internacional e a dialética da formação do estado (in Portuguese). Editora UFMG. ISBN 9788570415981.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "História do Ministério: Ministros da Justiça Anteriores de Timor-Leste – Desde 2002" [History of the Ministry: Former Ministers of Justice of Timor-Leste – Since 2002]. Ministry of Justice (in Portuguese). Government of East Timor. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
External links[edit]
Media related to Ministers of Justice of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons
- Ministry of Justice – official site (in Portuguese and Tetum)
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