Timor Leste PM quits after coalition collapse


Jose Maria Vasconcelos, known by his nom de guerre Taur Matan Ruak, was sworn in as prime minister in June 2018 following a protracted political crisis that had paralysed the half-island nation of some 1.3 million squeezed between Indonesia and Australia. . – EPA pic, February 25, 2020.

TIMOR Leste’s prime minister today said he was quitting after a political coalition that supported him collapsed, setting up the tiny Southeast Asian nation for another round of instability.

Taur Matan Ruak – a one-time guerilla fighter in the former Portuguese colony later annexed by Indonesia – said he had filed a resignation letter to President Francisco Guterres, citing a “political impasse”.


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