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"Permit me, Excellency, to begin by greeting you, wishing you all the best," writes Xanana Gusmão in a letter to Francisco Guterres Lu-Olo today, to which Lusa had access. I am extremely concerned about your mental, psychological and political health in this troubled process where you have to measure your skills in the light of a constitution that you have written, mastered and masterfully interpreted. "
Xanana Gusmão signs the letter as chairman of the CNRT and the document was sent to the president in a moment of tension between Lu-Olo, Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak and the Alliance for Change for Progress ( AMP), a coalition that won the legislative majority, which includes the CNRT, the PLP (Matan Ruak) and the KHUNTO.
Xanana Gusmão insists that "as long as the government is not fully constituted, it is not possible, in a politically responsible manner, to introduce the government program, which will put end to the financial suffocation of the country ".
the appointment of members of the government to "prepare, in a serious and consistent manner, a proposal for the general state budget for 2018 to withdraw the country from the system of twelfths and ensure, in a systematic, regular and transparent manner , the financing of state expenditure ".
If the situation continues, he said, "it will be the sole responsibility of the President of the Republic, who insists on maintaining the situation of political impasse created by himself, so as not to respect the sovereign will of the Republic. Timorese people ".
"The political situation in our country is collapsing and it is serious because the financial resources of the state are now very limited, so all political leaders must conduct their actions with prudence, honesty and wisdom ". "
" At this moment, the country, our people, needs the head of state to demonstrate that he assumes the high constitutional responsibilities incumbent on him, contributing to political stability, to governance of the state and social peace "(19659002) The letter leaves many references to many issues that have sparked a debate in Timor-Leste in recent years, from the issue of corruption to the relationship between Xanana Gusmao him and the Independent Revolutionary Front of East Timor (Fretilin), and the accusation by AMP that Lu-Olo is acting more like president of Fretilin than of the State.
Leaving several In the document, Xanana Gusmão laughs at the references that have been made to her party and its members, and to the President of the Republic, Xanana Gusmão accuses Lu-Olo's contradictory positions regarding questions that include appointments to public office.
but still leaving a harsh criticism of the head of state, with multiple references to the past struggle for the liberation of Timor-Leste from the Indonesian occupation as well as to the affairs already after the restoration of independence.
I had a corrupt party, full of militias and autonomists, without gem and shine veterans like you and your comrades, a political party whose cadres and other members do not do not understand or speak Portuguese and are probably hated by the majority of the people, a people who, despite this, betrayed them in a false expectation that their sovereign will would prevail ", he writes 9659002] Xanana" is ashamed the supreme culpability "of having created the CNRT during the 2006-2007 crisis" and the social and economic setbacks of the country since then, in a stupid and valueless effort to remedy the wounds, opened by elites who knew how to put the interests of the groups above the interests of the country. "Lu-Olo considers Fretilin's" untouchable president "- who is now in opposition – joking about his" undeniable status as head of state "and congratulates the President" for the tremendous example that " it gives Timorese citizens, including political parties. "
In the letter Xanana Gusmão insists that the PR appoints the members of the government on proposal of the Prime Minister, that the constitution determines the fundamental principle of the presumption of innocence and that" the conviction for "[19659008] "The expression – on the proposal of the Prime Minister – means that the competence of the President for the appointment of the members of the government is always subordinated to the political criterion of the Prime Minister", write
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