EDITORIAL: Implications of East Timor’s election*

Whatever the ultimate outcome of East Timor’s recent Presidential election, it is highly likely that Fretilin will lose the forthcoming parliamentary elections.While the counting of votes in the first round of East Timor’s Presidential election has been an utter debacle, the election offers the prospect that fundamental change may be underway in East Timor.Although the election was conducted by the government, the published results show a massive decline in the vote for Fretilin, the Marxist par…

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