East Timor ruling party finalising PM candidates

East Timor’s ruling party will give the country’s president a list of prime ministerial candidates tomorrow – and Nobel prize-winning Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta may be on it, party members said.

Fretilin, the party of ousted Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, earlier threatened to block passage of the budget unless President Xanana Gusmao backed one of its nominees, raising fears of a political showdown.