{"id":334,"date":"2007-08-02T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-08-02T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:37:58","slug":"government-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Government – a work in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few deadlines seem to have come and gone and a new government is slowly emerging. The new parliament sat on Monday and a new president of parliament (think speaker in the Westminster system) was elected by the new parliament.<\/p>\n

Voting went according to party lines. That is, pretty much Fretilin\/Kota v. the rest. The rest won as expected with the presidency going to the Democratic party’s Fernanda “LaSama” de Araujo. That leaves CNRT and ASDT\/PSD to take up the other senior positions if everything goes along similar lines.<\/p>\n

So maybe this Friday, we might have a new PM. I presume that there will be the decision then the official appointment then a bit more negotiating while Ministerial positions are sorted.\u00a0 So it could still be weeks before a settled government is in place and then there are appointments of civil service department heads to be sorted.<\/p>\n

I have been sunk low for a few days with giardia where the porcelain has sustained a savage beating. I once thought I had iron guts but I have my doubts.\u00a0 My hobby of licking Dili restaurant toilet seats is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few deadlines seem to have come and gone and a new government is slowly emerging. The new parliament sat on Monday and a new president of parliament (think speaker in the Westminster system) was elected by the new parliament. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}