The History of Party Politics in Timor

There are five parties in Parliament now and all of them have some history. Fredlund was kind of the main party of the resistance to Indonesia during the period when Indonesia ruled Timor Leste, Gianna Arna Guzman and Ramos-Horta had been members I believe. But at some point they broke away after independence and formed CNR-T which is the other rival party. So a lot of the story of party politics in Timor has been a fight over who owns history. It's almost as if in South Africa, Nelson Mandela instead of running for the ANC had decided to set up his own party and people would have chosen between him and others.