East Timor Presidential Voting Ends 🗳️

(19 Mar 2022) Voters in East Timor cast their ballots on Saturday in a presidential election which will test the young nation’s stability amid a protracted political crisis and economic uncertainty.
Incumbent Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres, 67, a former guerilla leader from the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor party, known by its local acronym Fretilin, is running against 15 other candidates, including four women.
Surveys showed Guterres and former president Jose Ramos-Horta, both of whose popularity owes much to their history as fighters in East Timor’s struggle for independence from Indonesia, were among the front-runners according to a recent opinion survey, with Ramos-Horta in the lead.
Ramos-Horta, 72, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is backed by the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, known as CNRT, a party led by former prime minister Xanana Gusmao, an ex-resistance leader who remains influential.

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