Timor Leste’s independence fighter and first president Xanana Gusmao is set on pushing Australia for a gas pipeline to be built from the Greater Sunrise fields in the Timor Sea to his country’s south coast if his party wins the country’s parliamentary election.
Currently, Gusmao’s party, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT), has received 41.6 percent of the popular vote, claiming 31 of the 65 seats in the island nation’s national parliament, according to the May 21 poll.
This result will likely see the return of Gusmao as prime minister after being in opposition for three years. Gusmao was prime minister between 2007 and 2015….