Government of Timor-Leste

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  26 of January of 2022Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 26th, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - Executive Director of the National Agency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (Portuguese acronym - ANAPMA).
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - The status of the implementation of the projects funded by the infrastructure fund.

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  21 of January of 2022Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of January 21st, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - the dismissal of Lieutenant General Lere Anan Timur from his post as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces;
  
  2 - the dismissal of Major General Falur Rate Laek from his post as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces;
  
  3 - the appointment of Major General Falur Rate Laek as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces;
  
  4 - the appointment of Brigadier-General Calisto dos Santos Coli (Coliati) as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces;
  and
  
  5 - maintain the appointment of Commodore Pedro Klamar Fuik as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces.

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  19 of January of 2022Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 19th, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - Renewing the mandate of the members of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS – Portuguese acronym); and
  
  2 - Remuneration of the presidents and sole auditors of the Institute for the Defence of the Rights of the Child, (Instituto para a Defesa dos Direitos da Criança I. P.) and of the National Institute for the Fight against HIV-AIDS (Instituto Nacional de Combate ao HIV-SIDA, I.P.).

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  12 of January of 2022Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 12th, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - Land Registry Code;
  
  2 - Executive Director of the Investment and Export Promotion Agency of Timor-Leste, I.P. (Trade Invest).

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  05 of January of 2022Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 5th, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - first amendment to Government Decree No. 5/2017, of February 27th, which regulates campaigning and election propaganda;
  
  2 - first amendment to Government Decree No. 6/2017, of February 27th, which regulates the organization and operation of the polling centre and voting stations;
  
  3 - first amendment to Government Decree No. 7/2017, of February 27th, which regulates voting procedures, vote counting and tabulation of results;
  
  4 - first amendment to Government Decree No. 8/2017, of February 27th, which approves the technical procedures for holding presidential elections abroad;
  
  5 - first amendment to Government Decree No. 9/2017, of February 27th, which regulates the elections' observation activity;
  
  6 - First amendment to Government Decree No. 10/2017, of February 27th, which approves the technical procedures for carrying out the activities of news coverage of the presidential election;
  
  7 - first amendment to Government Decree no. 12/2017, of February 27th, on the exercise of voting rights in hospital and prison establishments;
  
  8 - first amendment to Government Decree no. 13/2021, of February 27th, which regulates the supervisory activity of the electoral process;
  
  9 - regulations on the submission of candidatures for the election of the President of the Republic;
  
  10 - voting rights of voters who are in compulsory prophylactic isolation centres, compulsory therapeutic isolation centres, or in compliance with compulsory prophylactic isolation or compulsory therapeutic isolation in their homes or in a legally admitted location for that purpose.
  
  11 - rules regarding the execution of the 2022 General State Budget.

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  04 of January of 2022The government of Timor-Leste extends its condolences for the loss of the Parliament Member Silvino Adolfo Morais

  Silvino Adolfo Morais, Member of the National Parliament, died on January 3rd, 2022, at the Guido Valadares Hospital, in Dili, at the age of 65.

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• 29 of December of 2021Meeting of the Council of Ministers on December 29th, 2021

  Approved:
  
  1 - remuneration of workers, coordinators and members of the bodies of the National Development Agency, I.P. (ADN – Portuguese acronym);
  
  2 - extend the deadline for provision deposit for the State's contribution under the Special Investment Agreement signed with TL Cement, Lda until December 31st, 2022; and
  
  3 - temporary and extraordinary financial support to be granted to employing companies and individual workers who do not work as employees and who are registered in the social security system. This diploma aims to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic, as well as to contribute to the maintenance of jobs and the survival of companies.

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• 27 of December of 2021Vote of Condolences for the Death of Desmond Tutu

  South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and symbol of the struggle against apartheid died on December 26th, 2021, at the age of 90, in Cape Town, South Africa

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