Pires, the parliamentary member for the People’s Liberation Party, said the coalition government would not support KIP findings as the inquiry had not included then chairman of the Council Administration Infrastructure Fund (KAFI), Xanana Gusmao, and former Prime Minister  Rui Araujo,  who were in power at the time when the projects were signed. 

He also said he had no trust in the impartiality of the report, claiming the Chairman of KIP, Antonino Bianco from the Fretilin opposition party, had a personal interest to keep Gusmao and Araujo away from the investigation

He said it was essential that Gusmao and Araujo explain the legality of the projects.

The KIP report was commissioned to investigate the fiscal activities behind 143 state projects distributed by the sixth constituent government in early 2017 when Timor-Leste was in preparation for the Presidential election and Legislative Election.

These projects have been found operating without formal contracts and have yet to be paid.

"We think that the data collected by KIP is not accurate because in the report not written by Xanana Gusmao and ex-prime minister Rui Araujo, both of them should be invited to the National Parliament to hear their declaration," Pires said in National Parliament on Friday.

Bianco responded to the criticism in parliament, accusing the Alliance for Change and Progress (AMP) government of not collaborating well with the KIP report.

Bianco denied the report was biased, saying it had been conducted by a team of independent investigators including an international advisor and a person commissioned form the National Development Agency.

Oscar Lima, the President of Timor-Lese Chamber of Commerce, offered a view that the political parties must find a compromise. Lima said work needed to be paid for, declaring that contractors had become “victims of politics.”

Members of the 11-person KIP commission such as Luis Roberto are disappointed about the report, labelling it unsatisfactory and a “waste of state money”

"It is better that we 11 people must immediately return the state money because KIP has no positive results," Roberto said.