| Minister of Defense | |
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| Ministry of Defense | |
| Style |
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| Member of | the government |
| Reports to | Prime minister |
| Appointer | President (following proposal by the Prime minister) |
| Formation | 1975 / 2005 |
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| Website | Official website |
The Minister of Defense (Portuguese : Ministro da Defesa, Tetum : Ministru Defeza) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of East Timor heading the Ministry of Defense.
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 Defense is Pedro Klamar Fuik . [2] [3]
The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Title | Government (Prime Minister) | Term start | Term end | Term in office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | Rogerio Lobato |  | Minister of National Defense | 1975 CoM (Lobato) | 1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | ||
| 1975–1999: Indonesian occupation of East Timor | ||||||||||
| 2 | Independent | Roque Félix Rodrigues |  | Minister of Defence | I Constitutional (Alkatiri) | 26 July 2005 | 1 June 2006 | 310 days | ||
| (acting) | José Ramos-Horta |  | 1 June 2006 | 10 June 2006 | 9 days | |||||
| 3 | II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) | 10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | 313 days | ||||||
| 4 | Fretilin | Estanislau da Silva |  | III Constitutional (da Silva) | 19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | 81 days | |||
| 5 | CNRT | Xanana Gusmão |  | Minister of Defense | IV Constitutional (Gusmão) | 8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 7 years, 192 days | ||
| Minister of Defence and Security | V Constitutional (Gusmão) | 8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | |||||||
| 6 | Cirilo Cristóvão |  | Minister of Defence | VI Constitutional (Araújo) | 16 February 2015 | 3 October 2017 | 2 years, 229 days | |||
| 7 | Fretilin | Agostinho Sequeira Somotxo |  | Minister of Defence and Security | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) | 3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | ||
| 8 | Independent | Filomeno da Paixão de Jesus |  | Minister of Defense | VIII Constitutional (Ruak) | 22 June 2018 | 1 July 2023 | 5 years, 9 days | ||
| 9 | Pedro Klamar Fuik |  | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) | 1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 223 days | ||||
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