Partido Trabalhista Timor (PTT), on Friday, submitted its registration application with the Independent Electoral Commission. The party also nominated Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos-Horta as its candidates for the Constituent Assembly.

PTT President Paul Freitas da Silva and his followers were at the IEC to lodge their registration application. They said their party was the oldest in Timor Lorosae and was formed in 1974.

"Xanana and Ramos-Horta will be nominated as the party's candidates. These two piltical figures will be able to unite the people," said Paul Freitas.