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Ramos-Horta wins Timor Leste presidential election: officials
The 72-year-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09 percent, against incumbent Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres' 242,440, or 37.91 percent, the secretariat's website showed after all ballots were counted.
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Candidate for president Jose Ramos Horta gestures as he casts his ballot during the second round of presidential elections in Dili on April 19, 2022. (AFP/Valentino Dariel Sousa)
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obel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta scored a landslide victory in Timor Leste's presidential election, according to preliminary results published Wednesday by the election secretariat.
The 72-year-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09 percent, against incumbent Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres' 242,440, or 37.91 percent, the secretariat's website showed after all ballots were counted.
"The count of the district, national and regional vote has been completed", said Acilino Manuel Branco, general director of the election secretariat.
The election results still need to be validated by the country's electoral commission.
The victory gives Ramos-Horta his second term in office. He served as president of Southeast Asia's youngest country from 2007 to 2012 and was also the country's first prime minister.
"The elections were competitive, and the campaign was largely peaceful," EU observer Domenec Ruiz Devesa said Wednesday, adding the counting process had been assessed "positively".
Ramos-Horta will be inaugurated on May 20 -- the 20th anniversary of Timor Leste's independence from Indonesia, which occupied the former Portuguese colony for 24 years.
