East Timorese workers show a empty ballot box as they count votes during the parliamentary election in Dili, East Timor, on Saturday. (EPA photo)DILI, East Timor -- Preliminary results from East Timor's parliamentary election show the largest party in the national unity government has lost support and the leftist Fretilin emerging as the biggest beneficiary - but neither winning enough votes to govern alone. Its coalition partner Fretilin, or Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, was up slightly at 31%. The vote Saturday was East Timor's first parliamentary election without UN supervision since peacekeepers left in 2012. In the first few years after independence, Fretilin, whose paramilitary arm had waged guerrilla warfare against Indonesia's occupation, was popular enough to form a government alone.

Source: Bangkok Post July 23, 2017 06:00 UTC