Gusmao's party wins East Timor election

By Associated Press

May 24, 2023 12:30 am

DILI: East Timor's opposition party won Sunday's parliamentary election, meaning independence fighter Xanana Gusmao is likely to return as the prime minister of Asia's youngest democracy.

The final vote count released by the Southeast Asian country's National Elections Commission on Tuesday showed that the National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor, or CNRT, won 41 percent of the votes and gained 31 seats out of 65 in the National Parliament.

BACK IN POWER East Timor’s then-prime minister Xanana Gusmao talks to the media after attending a democracy seminar in the capital Dili on Feb. 6, 2015. AP FILE PHOTO

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