"The accord was a plan to make the elections legitimate," he said.
"There's a difference between fair and unfair elections, and legitimate and illegitimate elections," he said, when asked if, in light of extensive reports of fraud, he was prepared to recognize these elections as legitimate.
Putin had recently been elected to another six-year term, but American officials did not regard the election as legitimate.
The attacks received widespread condemnation, and the United States refused to recognize the election as legitimate.
This reprieve came as suddenly as the release of Mr Navalny from custody pending an appeal, aimed at making the election more legitimate.
Mr. Karzai disagreed at an afternoon news conference, saying the election was legitimate and that the will of the Afghan people should be respected.
The de facto government — whose leader, Roberto Micheletti, also is in the Liberal Party — tried to convince Hondurans and the international community that the election was legitimate.
Later, in the evening's major drama, Trump refused to say whether he would accept the election as legitimate if it was found that he lost.
"Is it possible to consider the results of the election as legitimate by merely the validation of the Guardian Council?" the association said.
"It is not up to the attorney general or the special court to say if the election is legitimate," said Ahmad Nader Nadery, head of the Free and Fair Election Foundation, an Afghan watchdog organization.
