East Timorese have voted to choose members of parliament, following a relatively peaceful two-round presidential contest in March and April. Polls opened early Saturday in an electoral process that is expected to result in the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers in December. Twenty-one parties fielded candidates for the 65-seat parliament. The two top parties are the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) and the Fretilin. Damien Kingsbury, an Indonesian ...
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