This number includes 45 independents unaffiliated with any party; 35 candidates from the three parties of "l’Alliance de la Mouvance Présidentielle" – twenty-one from President Azali Assoumani's own party, the Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC), seven from RADHI, led by the manager of Assoumani's 2019 reelection campaign, Houmed Msaidie, and seven from the Orange Party, led by the Minister of the Interior, Mohamed Daoudou, who also organized the election and oversaw the prosecution of opposition figures – and only one candidacy from an opposition party, representing the Democratic Rally of the Comoros, the party led by former Grand Comore Island Governor Mouigni Baraka.