[TimorLesteStudies] Reminder: Invitation: Governance & Political Equilibrium in Timor-Leste

Michael Leach mleach at swin.edu.au
Mon Nov 21 09:27:07 AEDT 2016





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Governance and Political Equilibrium in Timor-Leste:
Will they survive the 2017 elections?
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A Seminar with Rui Gra?a Feij?

Over the last 14 years Timor-Leste has fashioned a system of government that is rare in this part of the world, often referred to as 'Semi-Presidentialism'. This system sees a directly elected president governing alongside a prime minister who derives legitimacy from an independently elected parliament. Based on the existence of a diarchy of powers, this system is seen by many critics as being broadly susceptible to periods of political imbalance and dysfunction, be it in the form of 'super-presidentialism'-when presidential and parliamentary majorities coincide-or through the institutionalization of conflict as political leaders influence the government's agenda by securing support across various portfolios. To date, this paper argues, Timor-Leste appears to have circumvented many of the problems associated with this system by electing 'independent' presidents. However, how realistic is it to assume that such an equilibrium can be maintained into the future?

In 2009, Xanana Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta and Mari Alkatiri each stressed that any assessment of the system's virtues should only be undertaken towards the end of the third electoral cycle. This is due to occur in 2017. In this seminar Rui Gra?a Feij? will offer his thoughts on current trajectories and future possibilities for the future of state politics in Timor-Leste.

This is a public event and we welcome people to attend, engage and learn about this important issue.

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Event details:

When:    4.00 - 6.00pm, Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Where:  RMIT City Campus, Emily McPherson Building
              RMIT Building 13, Level 1, Room 001
              405 Russell St, Melbourne

RSVP:    To reserve your place please email globalresearch at rmit.edu.au<mailto:globalresearch at rmit.edu.au?subject=RSVP%20for%20'Governance%20and%C2%A0Political%20Equilibrium%20in%20Timor-Leste'>





About the speaker



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Rui Gra?a Feij? is an assistant researcher with the Centro de Estudos Sociais in Coimbra and has been involved with researching and supporting political life in Timor-Leste since the restoration of independence in 2002. In 2005 he was appointed as a UN Advisor to the Office of the President. In 2006 he published Tropical Landscape with People Inside followed by an edited collection in 2014 entitled The Timorese Semi-Presidentialism. This year he released a new monograph, Dynamics of Democracy in Timor-Leste: The Birth of Democratic Nation 1999-2012 (Amsterdam University Press).





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