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Mari Alkatiri

prime minister of East Timor
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Mari Alkatiri served as the first prime minister of East Timor from 2007 to 2015. He was appointed to this role after Xanana Gusmão, who had previously served as president, formed a coalition government. Alkatiri's tenure was marked by allegations of intimidation and assassination of political opponents, which led to mass protests and his subsequent resignation in June 2007. Gusmão then took over as prime minister. East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially became a sovereign state in 2002, following a UN-supervised referendum that rejected Indonesian rule.1234

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