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| Member of | Constitutional Government |
| Reports to | Prime Minister |
| Appointer | President of Timor-Leste (following proposal by thePrime Minister of Timor-Leste) |
| Inaugural holder | |
| Formation | 1975 / 2000 |
| Website | Ministry of Public Works |
TheMinister of Public Works (Portuguese:Ministro das Obras Públicas,Tetum:Ministru Obras Públikas) is a senior member of theConstitutional Government of Timor-Leste heading theMinistry of Public Works.
Under theConstitution of Timor-Leste, the Minister has the power and the duty:
Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a governmentstatute, the Minister is also required, together with thePrime Minister, to sign the statute.[1]
The incumbent Minister of Public Works isSamuel Marçal.[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 | |
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| 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] | 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 | 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 |  | 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 | |||||
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| Vacant | VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) | 3 October 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 262 days | |||||
| 8 | PLP | 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 |  | 22 March 2022 | 1 July 2023 | 1 year, 101 days | |||
| 10 | CNRT | Samuel Marçal | IX Constitutional (Gusmão) | 1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 2 years, 115 days | |||
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