2022 East Timorese presidential election

2022 East Timorese presidential election
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Candidate José Ramos-Horta Francisco Guterres
Party CNRT Fretilin
Popular vote 398,028 242,939
Percentage 62.10% 37.90%
President before election

Francisco Guterres
Fretilin

Elected President

José Ramos-Horta
CNRT

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Presidential elections were held in East Timor on 19 March 2022.[1] Incumbent Francisco Guterres sought election to a second term.[2] As none of the presidential nominees received at least 50% of the cast votes, a runoff was held on 19 April 2022, between the top two candidates, José Ramos-Horta and Guterres.[3] Ramos-Horta won the runoff with 62.1% of the total votes cast.[4]

The election marked the first time that someone had been re-elected to the East Timorese presidency (albeit to a non-consecutive term), as well as the second time that an incumbent president had been defeated – after the 2012 election, when Ramos-Horta was eliminated in the first round.[5] As a result of constitutional provisions which limit presidents to two five-year terms in a lifetime, Ramos-Horta will be ineligible to run in any future presidential election.[6]

  1. ^ "East Timor Nobel laureate Ramos-Horta to run for president again". France 24. 23 January 2022. Archived from the original on 30 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  2. ^ Barrett, Chris (19 December 2021). "'Thousands pleading with me to run': Jose Ramos-Horta eyes return as East Timor president". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 13 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Ramos-Horta, Guterres early frontrunners in East Timor election". Reuters. 20 March 2022. Archived from the original on 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Timor-Leste presidential election: José Ramos-Horta wins in landslide". The Guardian. 20 April 2022. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  5. ^ "East Timor president out of poll race".
  6. ^ "Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste", Section 75.3: "The President of the Republic's term of office may be renewed only once."