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| Toyota Prado. Every Timorese politician's dream. |
The 65 odd Timorese parliamentarians are to receive a brand new Toyota Prado each with a price tag of $50,000 plus, excluding maintenance. The beneficiaries include FRETILIN faction (the main opposition party) which rejected a quasi-similar offer by the state, albeit the cheaper and less grandiose Mitsubishi Pajero, in the last legislature under their honourable and principled stance.
The year 2013 is shaping up to be a great year for the politicians.
I agree that they need a vehicle to get around Timor-Leste's rugged countryside. But there must be a cheaper option and more modest vehicles to get around relative the poverty which surrounds the politicians everywhere they go?
ReplyDeleteFretilin is being the opposition party just for the sake of it. What a shame. They are paying lip service to the corrupt government lead by Xanana. In the end they are exactly the same if not worse. If Fretilin is doing this while as opposition, imagine what it will do once it controls the government? Fretilin today is not the same as Fretilin that started the revolution in 1975. I don't have any hope for the current Fretilin to ever go back to government under the current leadership. They need to start radical reforms and smarten up!!!
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