East Timor Votes in National Elections

Posted by on Jul 07, 2012

East Timorese have? voted to choose members of parliament, following a relatively peaceful two-round presidential contest in March and April.? Polls opened early Saturday in an electoral process that is expected to result in the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers in December.? Twenty-one parties? fielded candidates for the 65-seat parliament. The two top parties are the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) and the Fretilin. Damien Kingsbury, an Indonesian …

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Voice of America

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