The Council of State (Portuguese: Conselho de Estado, Tetum: Conselho de Estado) is a body established by the East Timorese Constitution to advise the President of the Republic in the exercise of many of his or her discretionary powers.

[1] The East Timorese Council of State is modelled on its Portuguese counterpart, which traces its history back to 1385.

[2] Portugal was the European colonizing power in East Timor between 1702[3] and 1975.

Two years later, upon the adoption of Portugal's Constitution of 1933 creating the Estado Novo (New State), the National Political Council became the Council of State.

[2] The present Portuguese Council of State is a product of the 1982 review of Portugal's Constitution of 1976.