The National Elections Commission has never published the list of candidates for the elections tomorrow.

For national parliament, it has published which parties are standing in which provinces, but not the names of the candidates on the party lists.

For provincial assemblies, it has not even published which parties are standing in which districts, so voters will only know their choice when they receive their ballot paper.

As well as a fundamental lack of information, there is actually some real confusion. Some lists posted outside the CNE headquarters in Maputo appear to contain too few candidates and it is not clear if those lists were allowed to go ahead.

Although a list of which parties are standing in which districts has never been formally published, the CNE is distributing a list to those who request it. The list below is a corrected list, based on the CNE list.

The list we published in Bulletin 4 on 15 September was based on candidates lists posted outside the CNE on 13 September. The revised list below is significantly different, with Frelimo standing in all districts and Renamo standing in many districts in Nampula and Zambezia.

That means the final lists must have been posted after 13 September, more than a week after the date set by law.