East Timor PM Taur Matan Ruak resigns as coalition collapses

The prime minister of East Timor has sent a letter of resignation to the president, he said on Tuesday, as the tiny Southeast Asian nation faces new political instability after the collapse of a coalition supporting him in Parliament.

“I have sent a (resignation) letter to the president,” Taur Matan Ruak told reporters after meeting President Francisco Guterres.

He said he was prepared to stay in office until the resignation was accepted “to guarantee government activities in our country”.

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Ruak has only served as prime minister since June 2018, following the collapse of two previous governments.

East Timor is one of the world’s poorest countries.

When Indonesia finally left in 1999 following a UN-supervised independence referendum, more than 80 percent of the country’s infrastructure had been destroyed.

The country became fully independent in 2002 after three years of UN administration.

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