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Timor-Leste axes plan to buy SUVs for MPs
The Straits Times
|September 18, 2025
Timor-Leste’s Parliament has bowed to public pressure and dropped a plan to buy sport utility vehicles (SUVs) for lawmakers in one of Southeast Asia’s poorest nations, but sceptical protesters returned to the streets on Sept 17.
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Student-led demonstrations against the multi-million-dollar purchase drew thousands this week in the capital Dili, with demonstrators and police clashing for two days in a row.
Unappeased by the last-minute reversal, around 2,000 demonstrators gathered near the Parliament building in Dili for a third straight day on Sept 17, according to an AFP journalist.
“Rumours are that the cars are already on the way,” said protester Trinito Gaio, 42.
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