Dili, East Timor, Sept 26, 2025 (AFP) - East Timor scraps lifetime pensions after protests

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2025-09-26

East Timor voted on Friday to scrap the lifetime pension law for MPs and public officials, following student-led demonstrations against lavish perks in one of Southeast Asia's poorest countries. Former MPs and some public officials are entitled under a law passed in 2006 to a pension equivalent to their salary. But 62 members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped lifetime pensions for MPs, former presidents, pr......

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