At the moment it seems to me that he is hoping to calm the waters, to find a way to retire and establish elections on his terms.
One established election forecaster said: "I was predicting a clear win for the United National Party and Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, but the confidence of Mr Rajapaksa's allies is making me a bit jittery".
For years, beginning in the nineteen-nineties, governmental and non-governmental organizations poured millions of dollars into Ukraine's politics, building up the parties, training civil-society groups and journalists, establishing election monitors.
If the Florida court revises its ruling to make clear it was merely interpreting established election statutes and was not rewriting the laws after the election in possible violation of federal law, there is unlikely to be any federal issue that would warrant further review by the United States Supreme Court.
In 2007, Scola co-directed the Personal Democracy Forum unConference, and in 2008 presidential cycle she co-led (Twitter) Vote Report, a project that brought together independent developers, established election protection organizations, and news organizations like NPR to conduct distributed reporting around the practice of democracy.
It was at that time that the previous method of sheriffs being appointed by the governor and General Assembly was replaced by an amendment to the Constitution establishing elections instead.
Establishing "electability" in this election is fundamental.
While we must also focus on campaign finance reform and public funding of elections, establishing an Election Day holiday would be an important step forward".
The Congress party had established an election committee for all election related decision, campaigning and co-ordination.
Opponents of the mayor's plan to establish nonpartisan elections burst into the commission hearing and chanted anti-Bloomberg slogans.
