On 9 May, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri described the violence since 28 April as a coup, with "the aim of blocking the democratic institutions, preventing them to function in a way that the only solution would be for national parliament to be dissolved by the President... which would provoke the fall of the Government."
5月9日，总理马里·阿尔卡蒂里将4月28日以来的暴力冲突描述为一场政变，其“目的是瘫痪民主机构，而唯一的解决办法，就是总统解散议会……而这会引起政府的垮台。