East Timor's minority government could fall within days

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated January 14 2018 - 4:43pm, first published 4:40pm
SPECIAL 010829 xanana pool.010829.pool photo by andrew meares.fairfax.east timor... East Timorese presidential candidate Xanana Gusmao is held aloft by the crowd as they welcome him to the village of Malelat in Occusi, East timor on Wednesday 29 August 2001. Gusmao visited several regions in East Timor pleading for calm ahead of the August 30 poll to elect a constituent assembly. .
SPECIAL 010829 xanana pool.010829.pool photo by andrew meares.fairfax.east timor... East Timorese presidential candidate Xanana Gusmao is held aloft by the crowd as they welcome him to the village of Malelat in Occusi, East timor on Wednesday 29 August 2001. Gusmao visited several regions in East Timor pleading for calm ahead of the August 30 poll to elect a constituent assembly. .

Only four months after taking office East Timor's minority government is set to fall, possibly within days, amid tense political manoeuvrings in Australia's nearest north-western neighbour.

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