{"id":167701,"date":"2018-06-22T04:02:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=167701"},"modified":"2018-06-22T04:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T08:02:14","slug":"new-east-timor-government-marred-by-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/22\/new-east-timor-government-marred-by-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"New East Timor government marred by corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_167702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167702\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/President_Taur_Matan_Ruak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167702\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/President_Taur_Matan_Ruak.jpg\" alt=\"Taur Matan Ruak, an independence fighter and former president, is still expected to be sworn in as prime minister Friday after a three-party alliance won a majority of parliament seats in a May 25 election. (Photo By Pittwater friends of Soibada - Pittwater friends of Soibada, CC BY-SA 3.0,)\" width=\"302\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/President_Taur_Matan_Ruak.jpg 302w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/President_Taur_Matan_Ruak-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taur Matan Ruak, an independence fighter and former president, is still expected to be sworn in as prime minister Friday after a three-party alliance won a majority of parliament seats in a May 25 election. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=28683336\">(Photo By Pittwater friends of Soibada &#8211; Pittwater friends of Soibada, CC BY-SA 3.0,)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DILI, East Timor &#8211; East Timor&#8217;s president is refusing to swear in 11 members of Cabinet because of corruption investigations, marring the formation of a new government following a protracted political stalemate in the young nation.<\/p>\n<p>Taur Matan Ruak, an independence fighter and former president, is still expected to be sworn in as prime minister Friday after a three-party alliance won a majority of parliament seats in a May 25 election.<\/p>\n<p>President Francisco Guterres Lu Olo said eight ministers, including the finance and defence ministers, and three vice-ministers can&#8217;t be sworn in because the public prosecutor&#8217;s office is investigating corruption cases against them and some already have been sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>The election in May followed the collapse of a minority government that was in power for just a few months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DILI, East Timor &#8211; East Timor&#8217;s president is refusing to swear in 11 members of Cabinet because of corruption investigations, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":167702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[52113],"class_list":["post-167701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-taur-matan-ruak","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}