In the interests of continuity, I will try to be good and post daily until the election results are out at the end of next week.<\/p>\n
I don’t need to do much as there are international press crawling all over the place looking for a story. The hotels are full and its not because of the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was completely uneventful for me and I have to resort to UN security reports to tell me if anything happened. No-one talked about anything out of the ordinary so I assumed nothing more than the usual occasional rock and abuse. Most of the longer-term expat residents don’t tend to talk much about the small incidents.<\/p>\n
By the look of the candidate supporters, there would appear to be a certain proportion of hangers-on looking for a good time. Many looked curiously similar to the same hangers-on around some of the gang fights. For this reason, I am not going to be surprised to hear of the occasional altercation when rival supporters cross paths. This stuff may well be outside the candidate’s control.<\/p>\n
Officially, the campaigning is over. I am told that Fretilin supporters are camping out down at Tasi Tolu which is about 8kms west of the centre of town. (I will guess and say in the racecourse area.) I assume other candidate’s supporters are doing the same at various points around the place. One of these groups will end up having a big party next week. Who knows if these groups will stick together right through until next Friday when a final result is expected.<\/p>\n
As for me today, a bit of body maintenance may be required and without the peak minute traffic, a bit of sucking in the silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the interests of continuity, I will try to be good and post daily until the election results are out at the end of next week. I don’t need to do much as there are international press crawling all over … Continue reading