East Timor Election, Next Goverment Will Be a Coalition

The Fretilin Party,has 28 percent of the vote counted, according to preliminary results posted on the electoral committee's Web site at 11 a.m. Dili time today. The National Congress for the Reconstruction of East Timor, (CNRT), formed by former president Xanana Gusmao, has 23 percent.


By no party has a majority vote, Next Goverment Will be a Coalition.

``They will have no other choice but to build a coalition,'' Martinho Gusmao, spokesman for the Southeast Asian nation's electoral committee said today from Dili, as writen by bloomber.com. ``No party has reached a single majority.''

According to East Timor constitution, to form a single majority government, a party must win at least 50.01 percent of vote, or 33 of the 65 seats in parliament.

The final results will probably be known later today, said Maria Sarmento, the electoral commissioner.