EDITORIAL: Fretilin defeated in East Timor’s presidential poll
In the presidential election run-off in East Timor last week, the front-runner from the left-wing party Fretilin, Francisco “Lú-Olo” Guterres, was comfortably defeated by Taur Matan Ruak, the former military chief and protégé of Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmão. Fretilin, an acronym for the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, conducted an effective but…