The candidate whose name appears first on the ballot paper for the presidential elections is determined by drawing lots. in Tetun
Prosesu sorteiu ba eleisaun prezidensiál define kandidatu ne'ebé mak primeiru iha boletín du votu.
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This Tetun (Tetum) translation comes from a curated 2,500-phrase parallel corpus drawn from the official tetun.org dictionary by Catharina Williams-van Klinken. Tetun is one of the two official languages of Timor-Leste alongside Portuguese.
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- No candidate won an absolute majority in the first round of the presidential elections, so there will be a second round of elections in May.La iha kandidatu ida manán absoluta iha primeira ronda eleisaun prezidensiál nian, nune'e sei iha segunda ronda iha fulan Maiu.
- If no one candidate wins in the first round of a presidential election, then the two with the most votes continue on to the second round.Se la iha kandidatu ida mak manán iha primeiru ronde eleisaun prezidensiál, entaun na'in rua ne'ebé mak votus barak liu kontinua ba iha segundu ronde.
- Lita: Is his name António? Ina: No, his name is José.Lita: Nia naran António ka? Ina: Lae, nia naran José.
- The voters insert the ballot papers which they have marked into the ballot box.Votante sira hatama surat vota ne'ebé sira marka tiha ona, iha kaixa vota ne'e.
- The first candidate received a total of 127,342 votes, which equates to 31% (of the votes).Kandidatu primeiru hetan votus hamutuk 127,342, koresponde ho 31%.
- His traditional name is "Naha Risi", but at school he is called by his Christian name "Manuel dos Santos".Nia naran jentiu "Naha Risi", maibé iha eskola bolu tuir naran sarani, "Manuel dos Santos".