Timor-Leste
30 June 2007
Parliamentary elections were held. FRETILIN (Frente Revolucionária do Timor-Leste Independente) won with a small margin of 29 percent of the vote against 23 percent for CNRT (Congresso Nacional da Reconstrução de Timor).
11 May 2007
José Ramos-Horta defeated Francisco Lu’olo Guterres to win the presidency.
9 April 2007
In the first round of presidential elections, Parliament leader Francisco Lu’olo Guterres and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta, who obtained respectively 28 and 22 percent of the votes, earned the right to face each other in the May runoff.
March 2007
Judicial proceedings into the April-May 2006 violence led to the conviction of former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato.
22 February 2007
The Council renewed UNMIT for 12 months and increased its police size by 140 ahead of the presidential elections.
February 2007
The Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) began hearings on the 1999 violence.
