{"id":308,"date":"2007-06-10T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T01:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-07-02T06:24:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T21:24:43","slug":"the-parties-in-upcoming-election-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"The parties in upcoming election contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of East Timor Studies<\/a>, I came across this 26 page paper from Australia which summarises as simply as I can handle, the 14 parties contesting the upcoming parliamentary election – “Political Parties and Groupings of Timor-Leste”.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is not going to tell you that much about why one should (if you could) vote for any of the parties, but it gives a short history and names important movers and shakers. I prepared a little table (below) where I doodled a bit and threw in some info. I was interested in when the parties started and also which ones seemed to be pushing a different language emphasis. (The language thing is not detailed in any way. It is just a summary of what this paper mentions on the subject. If not mentioned, nothing is put in the table.)<\/p>\n

It was also the 1st time I looked at the current parliamentary distribution of seats. Based on round one of the presidential election, the distribution is expected to change significantly, with ASDT\/PSD, PD and CNRT gaining seats at the expense of Fretilin. Who knows how much support the others have, particularly those parties established after 2002 who do not currently have parliamentary representation.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the mnemonics (ie abbreviated name of party) make it all pretty confusing.
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\n<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Party<\/strong><\/td>\nStarted<\/strong><\/td>\nCurrent
\nSeats<\/strong><\/td>\n		Stated position on language<\/strong><\/td>\nKey Players<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ASDT<\/td>\n1974<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese, English<\/td>\nXavier do Amaral<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CNRT<\/td>\n2007<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n <\/td>\nXanana Gusmao, Agio Pereira, Dionisio Soares<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fretilin<\/td>\n1974<\/td>\n54<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese<\/td>\nFrancisco “LuOlu” Guterres, Mari Alkatiri, Estanislau da Silva<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
KOTA<\/td>\n1974<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese, Bahasa, English<\/td>\nManuel Tilman, Leao Pedro dos Reis Amaral<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PD<\/td>\n2001<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nTetun<\/td>\nMariano Sabino Lopes, Fernando “LaSama” de Araujo, Joao Boavida<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PDC<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n <\/td>\nAntonio Ximenes, Rev Arlindo Marcal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PMD<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n <\/td>\nErmenegildo “Kupa” Lopes, Lettu Purn, Melio de Jesus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PNT<\/td>\n1999<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nTetun, Bahasa, English, Portuguese<\/td>\nDr. Abilio Araujo, Allanca Conceicao de Araujo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PPT<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n <\/td>\nDr.Jacob Xavier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PR<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese, English<\/td>\nJoao Saldanha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PSD<\/td>\n2000<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese, English<\/td>\nMario Carrascalao, Zacarias Albano da Costa, Joao Goncalves<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PST<\/td>\n1995?<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese<\/td>\nAvelino Coelho da Silva, Nelson Correia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PUN<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n <\/td>\nFernando Borges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UDT<\/td>\n1974<\/td>\n2<\/td>\nPortuguese<\/td>\nJoao Carrascalao, Quiteria da Costa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Undertim<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n–<\/td>\nTetun, Portuguese, English, Bahasa<\/td>\nCornelio “L7” Gama, Cristiano da Costa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Addendum : The ALP web site is no longer hosting the PDF file mentioned above. It can now be found at :<\/p>\n

timor_leste_political_parties_and_groupings_2nd_edition.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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