DILI (TOP) – National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction party founded by former Prime-Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão in 2007 begins to consolidate for parliamentary elections that will take place next year, 2023.
Gusmão had flown overseas last Friday to attend several important events in Bruxelas, London and Lisbon has left his party duties to CNRT Secretary General Francisco Kalbuadi Lay to open the party consolidation in Dili on Saturday 18 June 2022.
The presidential candidate from the FRETILIN party has lost badly against the presidential candidate from the CNRT party in the presidential election last April 19, and now the CNRT party is starting to strengthen its base from national to level aldeia to prepare for next year's parliamentary elections.
The opening ceremony of the party consolidation was chaired by the Secretary General of CNRT Francisco Kalbuadi Lay with his coordinators from 13 municipalities.
At this consolidation event, Kalbuadi appealed to his coordinators to continue to strengthen the party structure from the national level to the basic level.
"From today forward we all have to be ready to work with confidence and move forward," Kalbuadi stated this while leading the opening ceremony for the consolidation of the CNRT party in Dili Cathedral Hall, Saturday 18 June 2022.
The 2023 parliamentary elections will be very competitive and will also serve as a measure of the development of democracy in this small country. Therefore, Kalbuadi asked the structure to keep working hard in order to get adequate results in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The former minister of tourism and culture in 2012 stated that one of the major tasks of the CNRT party was to succeed in bringing the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize José Manuel Ramos-Horta to the presidential office and since last 20 May Horta has become the President of the Republic for everyone in this country.
"Today we are concentrating on consolidating from Dili to all corners of the country," Kalbuadi says.
Other political parties have also consolidated to prepare for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
