JAKARTA – Nobel Prize laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta, garnered 62.09 percent of the total votes, in Timor Leste’s presidential run-off, as all the votes have been counted, according to the country’s election administration body yesterday.

Ramos-Horta’s rival, Francisco Guterres got 37.91 percent of the total votes.

The presidential run-off was held on Tuesday.

In the first round of the presidential election, held in March, Ramos-Horta got 46.5 percent of the votes, followed by Guterres with 22.1 percent.

The run-off was held as no one of the two frontrunners gained more than the 50 percent votes.

The ballots had been completely counted last night, according to the official website of the election body. But the official declaration of the winner has not been made, so far.

Ramos-Horta, one of Timor Leste’s founding fathers and the country’s former president, is backed by the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction Party. Meanwhile, Guterres is endorsed by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor Party.

Around 75 percent of the nearly 860,000 eligible voters cast their ballots in Tuesday’s poll.

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK