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JORNAL INDEPENDENTE - DILI, 12 July 2011
DILI: The government’s draft of the National Strategic Development Plan was approved yesterday by the parliament after MPs from FRETILIN and the National Unity Party walked out of the discussion session.
The plan was supported unanimously by the 38 MPs - members of the alliance group and PPT, and an independent - who remained sitting in the parliament session after the opposition MPs left.
The alliance group, comprised of CNRT, PD, PSD, ASDT and UNDERTIM, approved the 2011-2030 development plan.
FRETILIN Chief Aniceto Guterres said his party left the discussion because the parliament was not given enough time to consider and debate the draft.
He also said his group disagreed with CNRT MP Pedro da Costa’s declaration that consensus between all parties and civil society organizations was unnecessary.
The strategic plan concerned not only the opposition and the government, but the entire nation, he said.
“The opposition works hard (to cooperate to discuss the issues) but (the alliance group) continues not to listen, so there is no time (for FRETILIN) to be in this place to discuss,” Mr Guterres told the parliament before his group left the session.
“The parliament needs time and a consensus among the political parties, civil society and others (so that) it can be implemented (well) in the future.”
Mr Guterres said his group believed there would be problems with the plan’s implementation because some programs were not outlined clearly.
National Unity Party President Fernanda Borges said her party was also dissatisfied with the timeline.
Ms Borges said, under the laws of parliament, the government should have given the draft plan to the parliament’s Commission C to look at before it was brought to the general discussion for approval.
Before leaving the parliament, Ms Borges told the session her party would approve the plan if there was consensus between all parties and other important institutions in Timor-Leste.
She said the plan represented the alliance group’s point of view.
After the opposition MPs left the discussion, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao said he did not understand what system of democracy the two opposition parties believed in.
Mr Gusmao said the plan was not his own, but for all Timorese.
“I heard some said the plan was mine. It is not mine,” he said.
Every country had national development plans to guide the long-term development process, Mr Gusmao said.
The people of Timor-Leste wanted to experience the reality of development, he said.
UNDERTIM MP Faustino dos Santos ‘Renan Selak’ said his party trusted the government, especially Mr Gusmao, to implement the national strategic plan to liberate Timorese people from poverty.
PD President Adriano do Nascimento said the government needed a plan to develop the country.
“The dream will be implemented with concrete action through national development to change people’s lives (for the) better,” Mr Nascimento said.
CNRT MP Aderito Hugo da Costa said the plan was good because it would guide national development.
PSD MP Vidal de Jesus said the plan was necessary and it was important to implement it in Timor-Leste.
Mr de Jesus said, with his experience leading the national resistance to independence, Mr Gusmao could also develop the country.
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For the life of me, I do not see anything in the plan that could be rejected by any Timorese person wanting to improve the living conditions in Timor.
It includes all the things that the opposition has been fiercely attacking the government for lack of action on.
It basically is a document open for review later on that will serve as a long term general guide to improvements in all important areas of living and I cannot see what this people against it are on about.
No specifics are yet set in stone as to how the proposed development will take place which leaves plenty of time for debate and discussion on adequacy specially as the parliament has have to approve the national budgets for any development initiative taken in the years to come.
It is really petty politics what Fretilin and PUN are doing here.
Their attitude is really a storm in a tea cup and rather childish politics.
Shame on you.
GOVERNANCE IS GETTING BETTER AND THE ELITE ARE GETTING RICHER BUT THE POOR 90% ARE GETTING WORSE!!!!...AND THAT IS THE REALITY HERE IN TIMOR LESTE. JUST COME AND SEE IT FOR YOURSELVES. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE DISTRICTS JUST LOOK IN THE BACK STREETS OF MOST SUBURBS HERE IN DILI; NO RUNNING CLEAN WATER, NO ELECTRICITY, DIRT ROADS, NO MECICAL CENTRES, NO DECENT SCHOOLS, NO DESK, CHAIRS, WINDOWS, DOORS, ELECTRICITY EVEN NO TEACHERS AT SCHOOL, NO MEDICINE OR DECENT MEDICAL EQUIPTMENT IN HOSPITAL, NOT ENOUGH BEDS FOR PATIENTS, ROADS LEADINGS TO DISTRICTS ALL BROKEN AND FALLING APART, POPULATION THAT HAVE SUFFERED FROM OVERFLOWIN AND FLOODS STILL SQUATTING BY THE SIDE OF RIVERS OR ROADS, PEOPLE SLEEPING IN CUPBOARDS AT THE MARKETPLACE AND PEOPLE SLEEPING ON SIDE OF MAIN ROADS, SCHOOLESS YOUNG CHILDREN SELLING STUFF SUCH AS DVDS, CIGARETES, PHONECARDS JUST TO SURVIVE, PROSTITUTION AMONGS THE YOUNG WOMEN IS RIFE IN DILI AND EVEN AS FAR AS SUAI.
Nope my dear friend..In parliamentary system you must give more time for the parties in the parliament to discuss, debate and analyse all subjects related to national interests in a PROPER WAY!
Don't rush things and then you expect all parties to accept your views or plans on the country development. This is not how democracy functions my friend. Unless you think that you live in North Korea or some kind of dictatorial regimes! Sorry but the opposition parties have their own arguments and legitimate reasons in refusing to approve something that is quite a big rush and charade agenda by the AMP government! You talk about NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS, right, and you just give some hours for the parties in parliament to approve and sign it?!..This should be a complete jokes or insult to the parliament specially the opposition parties! So don't expect disrespect from the government's side for a respectful gesture to kiss their asses, no bloody way!
However good luck for the PEDN by the AMP, I mean enjoy your 1 year left of governance because in 2012 soon after the people kick your donkey regime out of political power then the PEDN will be reviewed again and it will be done in a PROPER, SERIOUS, INTELLIGENT and DEMOCRATIC WAYS, NOT LIKE THE BIG CHARADE BY THE AMP/BANANA GUSMAO'S REGIME!!
Atu hatete sai lolos deit katak, Documentu PEDN ne'e fo ba bancada FRETILIN-ALKATIRI tempu tinan ida mos, sira sei kontra nafatin, no walk out nafatin, sei la vota avor took ida. So,the Timorese people DON'T CARE, atu walk out ka atu ba ke'e fehuk ka atu ba kaer coelho ka, that's NOT IMPORTANT, with or without FRETILIN-ALKATIRI, Timor Leste sei hakat nafatin ba oin, sei dezenvolve neneik ba bebeik.
FRETILIN-ALKATIRI mak problema boot ba dezenvolvimento nasional, tanba konta buat hotu-hotu. FRETILIN-ALKATIR buka razaun rihun ba rihun atu hases-an husi dezenvolvimentu. Kalan-Loron mak kritika hela deit, koalia hela deit, mas la halo tee ida. Hatudu deit ambisaun atu kaer ukun.
Iha tempu liu ba kaer ukun ne'e la halo took milagre ba dezemvolvimento nasional, so bele deit sobu tun sobu sa'e hamosu krizi 2006, depois dun todan ba ema seluk mak halo krizi.
So ema laran aat no la hadomi rai Timor mak kontra PEDN. Lalika fo razaun bara-barak tanba sei la fo resultadu buat ida. Bele iha razaun rihun ida, mas sei la fo netik pasu ida ba dezenvolvimentu nasional.
For sure, With or Without FRETILIN-ALKATIRI, Timor Leste sei dezenvolve ba oin neneik ba bebeik.
Hakoak ba Timor.
CUITADO ANICETO!IHA 2012 MAKA HO NIA PATRAUN MARI ALKATIRI MONU,O'O NIA OIN SAI PIOR LIU TA'AN.
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You are a sadly deluded person if you think Fretilin is going to win the coming election.
I think you desperately want to believe it because you must be one of those people in the party's inner circle who are going to get the rough end of the stick when it does loose in the next election.
However burying you head in the sand will not save from the pain of a disastrous defeat in 2012.
Judging from what this government has achieved in practical terms in the eyes of the people Fretilin's defeat in next election is almost a foregone conclusion.
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