Protesters in Timor-Leste have vowed to continue rallying until a plan to buy new cars for MPs is overturned, as demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of the nation's capital.

Timor-Leste's prime minister called on protesters to resist violence after demonstrators in Dili burned tyres, a government vehicle near the parliament building and hurled rocks toward police officers, who responded with tear gas.

About 2,000 protesters, roughly double the number who took to the streets on Monday, gathered near the National Parliament to oppose a plan to procure Toyota Prado SUVs for each of the 65 members of parliament.

It followed a similar protest on Monday, which prompted several political parties to announce they would ask parliament to cancel the plan.

Those same parties had prev

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