With only two days to go before elections, there is still no publicly available list of candidates. Copies of the list have been made available, confidentially, to selected people, but have not been posted on the CNE website or published in Boletim da República.

Indeed, there is not even a publicly available list of which parties are standing in which districts for provincial assemblies. (The CNE published such a list for national parliament, but not for provincial assemblies.)

This is particularly confusing because the lists posted outside the CNE and used for the table in Bulletin 4 of 15 September showed that Frelimo was not standing in three districts. But Deliberação n.º 66/CNE/2009 of 5 September, which was posted on the CNE website on 17 September, says Frelimo is standing in all districts.

Corrections to the list of polling stations, with the 427 polling stations in seven districts missed out two weeks ago, were finally published in Notícias on Saturday. Several entire districts had been missed out, including Changara and Chifunde in Tete which will be special targets for observers this year because of high levels of fraud in 2004.

A nearly complete list of polling stations was posted on the CNE website on 14 October. The access from the home page via “locais da votação” does not give the full list (Maputo province is missing), but using the alternative address http://www.stae.org.mz/media/documentos/staepagina/ gives access to all provincial lists.