Francisco Guterres of the centre-left Fretilin party has been the president of East Timor since May 2017. The main party of the AMP coalition, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, led by independence hero Xanana Gusmão, was in power from 2007-17, but the leader of Fretilin,  Mari Alkatiri, formed a coalition government after the July 2017  parliamentary election. However, the new minority government soon fell, leading to a second general election in May 2018. In June 2018,  former president and independence fighter, Jose Maria de Vasconcelos, known as Taur Matan Ruak, of the three-party coalition, Alliance of Change for Progress (AMP), became the new prime minister.