East Timorese Elections, 2007

[Jens]

Let us just hope that the elections will be peacefull.

[Jens]

Bah, chances are East Timor will become a democratic nation in the style of Namibia or Mozambique, where the party that won independence controls government for atleast... some time, in the style of SWAPO or FRELIMO.

That might happen. On the other hand, the other Lusophone microstates, São Tomé and Cape Verde has actually witnessed the downfall of the revolutionary movements in democratic elections (Guinea-Bissau too, but everything collapses in that country. They could really use a leader of Amilcar Cabrals capacity)

[Jens]

XANANA IS PRIME MINISTER YAY!

(ahem, sorry; yeah, Fretilin won a plurality (27%) but most of the other parties were anti-Fretilin, so they all supported Xanana (they had something like 37 out of the 65 seats).  That made Fretilin angry, and after weeks of wrangling Jose Ramos-Horta named Xanana PM.  This has caused youths to throw rocks and set a building on fire, which is emo.  But, whatever the case, XANANA IS PRIME MINISTER YAY)

Really great news for Timor-Leste. let´s hope that Xanana and Ramos-Horta gets the space and peace to rebuild the country. GO Timor