However, few officials were willing to predict that the changes would prevent election fraud.. And the United Nations endorsement did not resolve complaints from some opposition leaders and Parliament members that the election monitor should be restored to the same independence it had last year, when it threw out one-third of Mr. Karzai's presidential ballots as fraudulent.
Mr. Karzai's most popular opponent last year, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, warned in an interview that without more substantial reform "the election in September will be a setback for democracy" and could create "another political stalemate, if not a crisis."
The other moves endorsed by the United Nations involved changing the Electoral Complaints Commission, the main fraud-monitoring body. Previously, three of the panel's five members had been appointed by the United Nations endorsed on Saturday, two of five members of the complaints commission will be international officials selected by the United Nations, and at least one of them would have to ratify any decisions."
A UN backing the imperialist foreign policies of America and NATO, to the helpless dismay of billions, allows its officials to be tools of the brutally homicidal occupation of Afghanistan, arranging preposterously phony elections under a Quisling puppet government the UN helped to install.
Mr. Karzai's most popular opponent last year, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, warned in an interview that without more substantial reform "the election in September will be a setback for democracy" and could create "another political stalemate, if not a crisis."
The other moves endorsed by the United Nations involved changing the Electoral Complaints Commission, the main fraud-monitoring body. Previously, three of the panel's five members had been appointed by the United Nations endorsed on Saturday, two of five members of the complaints commission will be international officials selected by the United Nations, and at least one of them would have to ratify any decisions."
A UN backing the imperialist foreign policies of America and NATO, to the helpless dismay of billions, allows its officials to be tools of the brutally homicidal occupation of Afghanistan, arranging preposterously phony elections under a Quisling puppet government the UN helped to install.
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