(20 Mar 2017) East Timor is voting for a new president in an election that will test Asia's newest and poorest nation.
Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres, a former guerrilla leader from the leftist Fretilin party, is up against seven other candidates Monday. He and the Democratic Party's Antonio de Conceicao, the minister of education and social affairs, are the front-runners.
His biggest challenger was Antonio de Conceicao from the Democratic Party who is current Minister of Education and Social Affairs.
More than 740,000 of the country's 1.1 million people were expected to vote on Monday.
East Timor's transition to democracy has at times been rocky and its leaders have battled massive poverty, unemployment and corruption.
The country is still recovering from a bloody break for independence from Indonesia more than a decade ago.
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