Does the country publish the lists of parties and/or candidates registered for elections online?
Timor-Leste
EU observation mission report on 2017 elections
“To lend legal certainty to voters’ choice regarding competing candidates, it is considered international best practice to publish candidate lists. A comprehensive list of candidates for each competing party and coalition was not published for the legislative elections, which raised the prospect of voters going to the polls without detailed knowledge of who was standing for election. This lack of transparency limited voters’ right to information. STAE did not comply with its legal obligation to communicate on national radio and other media over three consecutive days the definitive list of admitted candidacies once notified of this information by the Court. Parties were allowed until up to 21 days before election day to make substitutions and finalise their lists, but there was no legal requirement for the final lists to be made public after this substitution period ended. Despite calls by national civil society organisations, the lists were not officially published.”