FILE PHOTO: Former President of the Republic of East-Timor and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta attends a speech at the Estoril Conferences - Global challenges, local answers, in Estoril, Portugal May 29, 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
DILI (Reuters) - East Timorese 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.
The National Congress of the Reconstruction of Timor Leste (CRNT), a party led by former president Xanana Gusmao, threw its support behind the 72-year-old's renewed presidential ambitions at its conference on Sunday.
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