EAST TIMOR: 14 parties running for elections

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Updated June 25, 2007 20:44:41

Less than a week out from the polls on Saturday, it's still difficult to pick a possible winner from the 14 parties running for election in East Timor.
The dominant party Fretilin is facing stiff competition from the new National Congress for East Timorese Reconstruction or CNRT, whose leader is the former popular President Xanana Gusmao. Yet neither party is likely to be able to form a government in their own right and a coalition will have to be negotiated with the smaller opposition parties.

Presenter: Rob Sharp
Speakers: Dian Islamiati, Radio Australia's Indonesian Service

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