Ex-PM's leftist party wins E. Timor election, coalition gov't likely

The leftist Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor has won the Southeast Asian country's legislative election, but appears unlikely to claim the absolute majority required to govern outright, the vote count showed Monday.With all 567,964 valid votes counted, the party better known as Fretilin, which captured 29.65 percent of the vote total, is expected to get 19-20 seats in the 65-seat parliament -- short of the 33 needed to control the unicameral parliament outright.The party led by East Timor's first post-independence prime minister Mari Alkatiri seems open to forming a coaliti…READ FULL ARTICLE