USAID Partners Promote Discussion of Electoral Laws
USAID partners IFES and IRI are helping local NGOs hold a series of public discussions on proposed legislation that will regulate the country's next elections, planned for the first half of 2007. Two sets of draft electoral laws are circulating: one set from Parliament's majority party and the other set from opposition members. Next year's parliamentary and presidential polls will be the first since Timor-Leste gained its independence in 2002. The public sessions on the draft laws, facilitated by NGOs East Timor People's Action and Women's Caucus, will be held in Dili and three district capitals. (Sept. 13, 2006)

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