DILI - Timor Leste's independence figure and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jose Ramos-Horta, will stand for president in the country's elections due to be held in March, the political party backing his bid said on Monday .
Mr Ramos-Horta was president of Timor Leste between 2007 and 2012. Before that, he served as prime minister between 2006 and 2007. Donald Greenlees, an author of a book about Timor Leste's independence struggle, said Mr Ramos-Horta's bid is indicative of the nation's"guerilla generation" of leaders being unable to let go.
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