Speaking in Parliament on Monday, Nunes responded to questions about delays in ministerial nominations, saying the party had been forced to push back its proposed June meeting because CNRT’s founding father and President, Xanana Gusmao, would be attending a G7+ of fragile states meeting at the time.

“To make a cabinet reshuffle or not will be determined at the conference,” Nunes said in National Parliament on Monday.

He said when a decision was made the party would “announce it the public.”

The ruling Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) ministerial cabinet, of which CNRT is a major coalition party, has been without nine key positions since the President of the Republic Francisco Lu Olo Guterres rejected nominations because of corruption investigations in June 2018.

The absence of the nine has left major holes in AMP’s administration as the nominees for the portfolios of health, defence, commerce, finance and the interior include those turned down by Guterres. 

The majority of those rejected hail from the CNRT party.

Nunes, speaking earlier, had said that the government had conducted a performance  evaluation of government members but CNRT had “not received any information.”

He said if the evaluation found that government members were not working effectively than the Presidents of the three AMP coalition parties and Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak should make a decision about their future in government.