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96 - Timor-Leste’s parliamentary election

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The Disappearance of the Independence Generation in Timor

There was a split pretty early on in post-independence history but they were in the same party at the beginning. Shanana who won massive vote 78% of their amounts. He wasn't just running as a Fredlund person so he had in effect attached himself from Fredlund even back then. And you also had the fact that the leadership of Fredlund actually spent most of the time from 75 to 1999 way out of Timor. They were not on the ground, they were in Portugal, they're in Mozambique and some of them were relatively unknown to the people in Timor when they came back. That's been an issue in the early daysso the fact that you've got

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