DILI, Timor-Leste, July 8 (UPI) -- Most of East Timor's 21 political parties will not be elected to Parliament, meaning 20 percent of voters will not be represented, an election observer said.
With about two-thirds of votes counted, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction party has won 37 percent of votes, the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor party has won 30 percent and the Party Democrats have about 10 percent, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Sunday.
The majority of the country's parties have not met the 3 percent of votes threshold for representation in Parliament, meaning 20 percent of voters will not have a representative in the government, election observer and academic Damien Kingsbury said.
That translates into more than 40 percent of the 65 parliamentary seats being held by the CNRT party.
The election, which should be finalized Monday, has so far passed peacefully, meaning the U.N. police and the Australian-led International Stabilization Force may leave East Timor later this year for the first time since 2006, the newspaper said.
