 East Timor President Xanana Gusmao has asked Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri to resign, government sources said yesterday. Officials including Alkatiri met at the presidential office to discuss the demand, but the meeting ended inconclusively in the afternoon and will resume today, the sources said. The request to Alkatiri was contained in a letter sent on Tuesday night, East Timor's ambassador in Indonesia Arlindo Marcal told Reuters. “The letter asked the prime minister to resign because the president does not trust the prime minister any more,” Marcal said. “The deadline was actually at 5pm, but the prime minister wants to consult this with his party first. We don't know the follow up yet,” he added.
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