"These students are acting as an electoral body that the school has designated".
The national electoral body has said there are no plans to postpone.
"You cannot live without an independent, impartial electoral body in the hope that democracy will take root," Mr. Abdullah added.
"If, ultimately, creditors insist on following an inflexible line … then the electoral body will have to assume its responsibilities".
But the electoral body said today that the referendum requested by the opposition was valid and should go ahead.
Those concerns were amplified this week when Turkey's electoral body disqualified 12 parliamentary candidates, seven of whom were from the B.D.P., from running in the June elections.
The new law, enacted in 1059, established an electoral body, which subsequently became the Sacred College of Cardinals, charged with sole responsibility for choosing the pope.
On Thursday, the electoral body revised its decision, saying that eight of the barred candidates were now eligible, following appeals by the candidates.
But because of his past failure to countenance a genuinely independent electoral body, the president too faces a problem, albeit a different one: credibility.
Instead of kings being elected by the things, a representation dominated by the church was to serve as the electoral body.
Kenyans waited for nearly a week for its beleaguered electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, to announce the result.
