Did you read
about East Timorese Presidential
elections and winning of José
Manuel Ramos-Horta ?
For Cricket
lovers, Mumbai Indians losing 8 games in a row now and struggling without a
single win is something unimaginable .. .. and yesterday the plight of the big
hitting Kieron Pollard was hard to digest.
This big six hitter had a batting average of 11.30 from 15
ODIs and 17.20 from 10 T20Is when he became the joint-biggest buy at the IPL
player auction in January 2010. He has had his matches of fame, but .. ..
yesterday against Lucknow Super Giants scratched around to see his team die ! –
not a great hooker, not playing pulls now a days, the big six hitter was held
to a tight leash of some short barrage – Polard tried to shuffle across but
could not score runs freely.
Miles away, Emmanuel Macron
comfortably defeated rival Marine Le Pen on Sunday, heading off a political
earthquake for Europe but acknowledging dissatisfaction with his first term and
saying he would seek to make amends. His supporters erupted with joy as the
results appeared on a giant screen at the Champ de Mars park by the Eiffel tower.
Leaders in Berlin, Brussels, London and beyond welcomed his defeat of the
nationalist, eurosceptic Le Pen. With 97% of votes counted, Macron was on
course for a solid 57.4% of the vote, interior ministry figures showed. But in
his victory speech he acknowledged that many had only voted for him only to
keep Le Pen out and he promised to address the sense of many French that their
living standards are slipping.
“No one in France will be
left by the wayside,” he said in a message that had already been spread by
senior ministers doing the rounds on French TV stations. Two years of
disruption from the pandemic and surging energy prices exacerbated by the
Ukraine war catapulted economic issues to the fore of the campaign. The rising
cost of living has become an increasing strain for the poorest in the country. “He
needs to be closer to the people and to listen to them,” digital sales worker
Virginie, 51, said at the Macron rally, adding he needed to overcome a
reputation for arrogance and soften a leadership style Macron himself called
“Jupiterian”. Le Pen, who at one stage of the campaign had trailed Macron by
just a few points in opinion polls, quickly admitted defeat. But she vowed to
keep up the fight with parliamentary elections in June. “I will never abandon the French,” she told
supporters chanting “Marine! Marine!”
Macron can expect little or
no grace period in a country whose stark political divisions have been brought
into the open by an election in which radical parties scored well. Many expect
the street protests that marred part of his first term to erupt again as he
presses on with pro-business reforms. Outside France, Macron’s victory was
hailed as a reprieve for mainstream politics rocked in recent years by
Britain’s exit from the European Union, the 2016 election of Donald Trump and
the rise of a new generation of nationalist leaders.
.. .. and in East Timor,
another head retained. José Manuel
Ramos-Horta would take office on 20 May 2022, having previously served as
president from 20 May 2007 until 20 May 2012. Previously he was Minister of
Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2006 and Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, along
with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, for working "towards a just and peaceful
solution to the conflict in East Timor".
East Timor is an
island country in Southeast Asia, comprising of the eastern half of the island
of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the
northwestern side of the island surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. Australia
is the country's southern neighbour, separated by the Timor Sea. The country's
size is 15,007 square kilometres (5,794 sq mi). Dili is its capital. East Timor was colonised
by Portugal in the 16th century and was known as Portuguese Timor until 28
November 1975, when the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
(Fretilin) declared the territory's independence. Nine days later, it was
invaded and occupied by the Indonesian military; it was declared Indonesia's 27th
province the following year. The Indonesian occupation of East Timor was
characterised by a violent, decades-long conflict between separatist groups
(especially Fretilin) and the Indonesian military. In 1999, following the
United Nations-sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia relinquished
control of the territory. As Timor-Leste, it became the first new sovereign
state of the 21st century on 20 May 2002 and joined the United Nations.
The Nobel
prize winner José Ramos-Horta has scored a landslide victory in Timor-Leste’s
presidential election; The 72-year-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09%,
against incumbent Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres’ 242,440, or 37.91%, the
secretariat’s website showed on Wednesday after all ballots were counted. The victory
gives Ramos-Horta his second term in office. He served as president of
south-east Asia’s youngest country from 2007 to 2012. The election could trigger a period of
uncertainty, as Ramos-Horta previously indicated he might dissolve the
parliament if he won the election.
25.4.2022.
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