José Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmão is an East Timorese politician. A former rebel, he was the first president of the independent East Timor, from 2002 to 2007. He then became its fourth prime minister, from 2007 to 2015. Gusmão holds the office of minister of planning and strategic investment since stepping down as PM.
The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor is a centre-left political party in East Timor. They presently hold 23 of 65 seats in the National Parliament. Fretilin formed the government in East Timor until their independence in 2002. They obtained the presidency in 2017 under Francisco Guterres, but lost in the 2022 East Timorese presidential election.
The national flag of East Timor is one of the official symbols of East Timor. It consists of a red field with the black isosceles triangle based on the hoist-side bearing a white five-pointed star in the center superimposed on the larger yellow triangle, also based on the hoist-side, that extends to the center of the flag.
The Timorese Nationalist Party is a political party in East Timor. Founder and President is Abílio Araújo, who was FRETILIN representative overseas during the Indonesian occupation until his dismissal in 1993.
The Association of Timorese Heroes, sometimes known as Sons of the Mountain Warriors, is a culturally conservative political party in East Timor. In 2007, KOTA said it had 30,000 members.
The People's Party of Timor is a conservative political party in East Timor. Its predecessor was the Movimento do Povo de Timor-Leste MPTL. The PPT is described as a conservative, backward-looking traditional party with utopian ideas and monarchist and religious tendencies.
The Christian Democratic Union of Timor UDC was a centre-right, Christian democratic political party in East Timor.
The Democratic Liberal Party is a centre-right conservative-liberal party in East Timor. The PDL is a party in East Timor that was founded as the Liberal Party in May 2001. It was renamed in 2011.
The National Parliament is the unicameral national legislature in East Timor. It was created in 2001 as the Constituent Assembly while the country was still administered by the United Nations, but renamed itself to the National Parliament with the attaining of national independence on 20 May 2002.
The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor originally began as the military wing of the political party FRETILIN of East Timor. It was established on 20 August 1975 in response to FRETILIN's political conflict with the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT).
José Luís Guterres is an East Timorese politician and diplomat.
The National Council of Maubere Resistance was an umbrella organisation of East Timorese individuals and organisations dedicated to resisting the Indonesian occupation of 1975–1999.
Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 7 July 2012. The United Nations stated that it would withdraw its 1,300 troops if the elections passed off peacefully. The National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, won the election with 30 seats, three seats short of a majority in National Parliament.
Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 22 July 2017. Fretilin narrowly emerged as the largest party in the National Parliament, winning 23 seats to the 22 won by the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, which had been the largest party in the outgoing Parliament.
Early parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 12 May 2018 after the National Parliament was dissolved by President Francisco Guterres on 26 January 2018.
Adriano do Nascimento is an East Timorese politician, teacher and university lecturer. He is a member of the Democratic Party (PD). Between 2007 and 2017, he was a member of the National Parliament of East Timor, and from October 2017 to June 2018, he was Minister in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in the VII Constitutional Government of East Timor. In June 2018, he resumed his membership of the National Parliament.
The 1975 Council of Ministers was the Council of Ministers formed by the Fretilin political party in 1975 as the inaugural administration or cabinet of the Democratic Republic of East Timor proclaimed in November 1975.
The Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) (Tetum: Aliansa Mudansa ba Progresu, Portuguese: Aliança para Mudança e Progresso) was a three-party alliance in East Timor. Until 1 February 2018, the alliance was called Parliamentary Majority Alliance (Tetum: Aliansa Maioria Parlamentar, Portuguese: Aliança da Maioria Parlamentar). The motto of the coalition was "Hametuk Hametin Nasaun" (English: Strengthen the nation together). The flag of the AMP showed the flags of the three member parties on a white background.
The Timorese Labor Party, or Trabalhista for short, is one of the five parties in East Timor founded as early as 1974. The party describes itself as democratic and socialist, comparable to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It has its headquarters in Dili on Rua de Bé Fonte in Bairo Formosa (Gricenfor).
Parliamentary elections were held in East Timor on 21 May 2023. The governing coalition going into the election was a four-party government of Fretilin–PLP–KHUNTO–PD, whilst CNRT was in opposition and held the executive branch.
