in Tasitolu On 9 April, the parties and alliances signed a "Pact of National Unity", committing themselves to peaceful elections. On 5 May, two vehicles carrying 18 CNRT supporters were attacked in
Viqueque, injuring several of the travellers. Marí Alkatiri apologized for the attack on behalf of Fretilin, but the NGO Fundasaun Mahein criticised the lack of measures to prevent such attacks. Moreover, the competition between the parties had been dominated by violent language, with party members commonly referred to as militants. In
Laga, according to AMP reports, there were also attacks on their supporters. On the other hand, there were some anti-Muslim statements, which was directed against Alkatiri, who is of
Hadhrami origin. and
Xanana Gusmão It was striking that the parties largely used figures from the independence struggle as figureheads for their campaigns. The AMP made special reference to the fact that its leaders Xanana Gusmão and
Taur Matan Ruak came from the armed resistance in the country, while the Fretilin leaders Alkatiri and
José Ramos-Horta spent the
Indonesian occupation period (1975-1999) abroad on the "diplomatic front". The PD campaigned with its late founder
Fernando de Araújo, who led the student independence movement in Indonesia (
RENETIL), and the MSD with
Mário Viegas Carrascalão and
Francisco Xavier do Amaral, also deceased. On 10 May, the President of the National Electoral Commission ()
Alcino Baris accused the AMP of spreading unfounded suspicions against the official electoral bodies on social media. Two posts on the AMP's Facebook account had warned that Prime Minister Alkatiri was "preparing mechanisms to deal with the early elections" with the CNE and the Technical Secretariat of the Electoral Administration (). The party claims that additional ballot papers were printed "to make Fretilin the winner" and they tried to buy votes with "money and rice". Then also claim that election officials were also manipulated. According to Baris, there is no evidence of this.
Fidelis Leite Magalhães, Vice-President of the AMP, said the warnings had certain bases and were intended to avoid abuse and "deliberate mistakes". The first reports from national and international election observers assessed the elections as free, fair and transparent. Besides Australia and the European Union, election observers included the
International Republican Institute, the Ibero-American Group of Electoral Observers GIOE with representatives from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Portugal and Venezuela and the Catholic Church alone 900 people. ==Results==