The left-wing party championed by former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has taken the lead in East Timor’s parliamentary elections, winning about a third of votes counted by early on Sunday.
The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, better known as Fretilin, is in a close contest, however, with the centre-left National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, or CNRT, led by former independence fighter Xanana Gusmao, who became the tiny country’s first president after…
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