He also served as director of political, constitutional and electoral affairs for the UN transitional administration in East Timor from 2000 to 2001.
One such, Juan Molinar, led many others in a protest to the foreign ministry, which he reckons is meddling in electoral affairs.
When Mr. Allawi, whose party was propelled by millions of Sunni Arab voters, toured neighboring Arab states during the election campaign, his Shiite opponents cried foul, accusing him of encouraging Arab meddling in Iraq's electoral affairs.
Mr. Ahmadzai, who met with the United States ambassador in Kabul for electoral affairs, Timothy Carney, before holding a news briefing at his home in Kabul last week, said fraud in Mr. Karzai's favor had been so extensive that he wanted a rerun of the vote in the entire ethnic Pashtun belt that stretches across 12 provinces, a third of the country.
The Liberal Party revelled in the electoral backwash from this affair on their political opponents.
Fidesz rewrote the country's laws and eventually its whole constitution, passing electoral legislation that foreign affairs experts say was designed to benefit itself and hinder Hungary's fractured liberal opposition.
And he says that he has found that Facebook to be the single most important community device for him since being elected in terms of engaging younger voters in opinions, even though heated at times, about civic affairs and electoral policy.
"I do hope they will nullify this election," he said of the court, adding that international governments and the United Nations had "meddled in Afghanistan's internal affairs," pushing the electoral commission to declare results that he called illegal.
Was this a signal to fellow basketball players, the most politically oblivious group of athletes, that it was O.K. to play a more active part in cultural and political affairs, including the electoral process?
7. Political affairs: Democracy, Human Rights, Good Governance, Electoral Institutions, Humanitarian Affairs, Civil society Organisations, Refugee Matters.
