# V Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste

The V Constitutional Government (Portuguese: V Governo Constitucional, Tetum: V Governu Konstitusionál) was the fifth Constitutional Government (administration or cabinet) under the Constitution of Timor-Leste. Formed on 8 August 2012, it was led by the country's fifth Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão, and was replaced by the VI Constitutional Government on 16 February 2015.

## Composition

The government was made up of Ministers, Vice Ministers and Secretaries of State, as follows:

### Ministers

| Party | Minister | Portfolio |
| CNRT | Xanana Gusmão | Prime Minister Minister for Defence and Security |
| PD | Fernando La Sama de Araújo | Vice Prime Minister and Coordinator of Social Affairs |
| CNRT | Ágio Pereira | Minister of State and of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers |
| FM | José Luís Guterres | Minister of State and of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation |
| Independent | Emília Pires | Minister of Finance |
| CNRT | Dionísio Babo Soares | Minister of Justice |
| CNRT | Sérgio Lobo | Minister of Health |
| CNRT | Bendito Freitas | Minister of Education |
| FM | Jorge Teme | Minister of State Administration |
| PD | António da Conceição | Minister of Commerce, Industry and Environment |
| Independent | Isabel Guterres [de] | Minister of Social Solidarity |
| PD | Gastão Francisco de Sousa | Minister of Public Works |
| Independent | Pedro Lay [de] | Minister of Transport and Communications |
| PD | Mariano Assanami Sabino | Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries |
| CNRT | Francisco Kalbuadi Lay | Minister of Tourism |
| CNRT | Alfredo Pires | Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources |

### Vice Ministers

| Party | Vice Minister | Portfolio |
| PD | Constâncio da Conceição Pinto | Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation |
| | Santina Cardoso | Vice Minister of Finance |
| CNRT | Ivo Jorge Valente | Vice Minister of Justice |
| CNRT | Natália de Araújo [de] | Vice Minister for Ethics and Service Delivery |
| CNRT | Maria do Céu Sarmento | Vice Minister for Management, Support and Resources |
| CNRT | Dulce de Jesus Soares | Vice Minister of Basic/Primary Education |
| CNRT | Virgílio Simith | Vice Minister of Secondary Education |
| CNRT | Marçal Avelino Ximenes | Vice Minister of Higher Education |
| FM | Abel da Costa Ximenes | Vice Minister of Commerce, Industry and Environment |
| CNRT | Jacinto Rigoberto de Deus | Vice Minister of Social Solidarity |
| CNRT | Flávio Cardoso Neves | Vice Minister for Transport and Communications |
| PD | Marcos da Cruz | Vice Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries |

### Secretaries of State

| Party | Secretary of State | Portfolio |
| PST | Avelino Coelho | Secretary of State of the Council of Ministers |
| CNRT | Maria Terezinha Viegas | Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs |
| CNRT | Nélio Isaac Sarmento | Secretary of State for Media |
| PD | Francisco Soares | Secretary of State for Institutional Strengthening |
| CNRT | Veneranda Lemos Martins [de] | Secretary of State for Support and Promotion of the Private Sector |
| CNRT | Idelta Maria Rodrigues [de] | Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality |
| CNRT | Miguel Manetelo | Secretary of State of Youth and Sports |
| CNRT | Ilídio Ximenes da Costa | Secretary of State for Professional Training and Employment Policy |
| Independent | Roberto Soares | Secretary of State for ASEAN Affairs |
| CNRT | Júlio Tomás Pinto | Secretary of State for Defence |
| CNRT | Francisco Guterres | Secretary of State for Security |
| CNRT | Jaime Xavier Lopes | Secretary of State for Land and Property |
| PD | Samuel Mendonça | Secretary of State for Local Development |
| CNRT | Tomás Cabral | Secretary of State for Administrative Decentralization |
| FM | Ricardo Cardoso Nheu | Secretary of State of Commerce |
| PD | Filipus ‘Nino’ Pereira | Secretary of State of Industry and Cooperatives |
| PD | Nominando Soares Martins ‘Buras’ | Secretary of State of Environment |
| FM | Vítor da Costa | Secretary of State for Social Security |
| PD | Júlio Sarmento da Costa | Secretary of State for the Combatants for National Liberation Affairs |
| CNRT | Luís Vaz Rodrigues | Secretary of State for Public Works |
| CNRT | Januário Pereira | Secretary of State for Electricity |
| PD | Elias Pereira Moniz | Secretary of State for Water, Sanitation and Urban Development |
| PD | João Fernandes | Secretary of State for Forestry and Nature Conservation |
| CNRT | Rafael Pereira Gonçalves | Secretary of State for Fisheries |
| CNRT | Valentino Varela | Secretary of State for Livestock |
| CNRT | Maria Isabel de Jesus Ximenes [de] | Secretary of State for Art and Culture |