The fall of Tripoli, when it is fully established, will set off an eight-month countdown to provisional elections.
Venezuela's Supreme Court, considered the last option for government opponents intent on ousting President Hugo Chávez, tonight appointed a provisional elections board to organize a recall referendum that could end the leftist firebrand's tumultuous presidency in as little as 90 days.
"Oh sure, Maliki is using us," Korb told the Huffington Post, adding that, as long as provisional elections are delayed, "we're keeping his enemies down".
Provisional election results in the world's biggest cocoa grower showed Ouattara winning by eight percentage points, but the nation's top court, run by a Gbagbo ally, overturned the results.
Provisional election returns from Rwanda, announced in news reports on Thursday, indicated that its Parliament, which reserves 24 of 80 seats for women, will become the first in which women hold a majority, with 44 seats.
When the provisional election results were first announced, and it appeared that the other party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) had done better, many assumed that its leader, Adel Abd al-Mahdi, would get the top job.That would have rattled secular Iraqis and Sunnis.
But Mr Karzai is gradually appointing more non-Tajiks: and besides, the government is only provisional, until elections can be held in 2004.
His statement binds the new Iraqi government to the constitution only during "the provisional period," until elections are held.
Adli Mansour, formerly a leading judge, will preside over a provisional government until elections are held, although no date has yet been set.
The arrangement calls for a caretaker government with a president, two vice presidents and a prime minister and a consultative conference to work alongside the provisional administration until elections in June 2005.
The last presidential election brought in 1,650 provisional ballots, while nonpresidential elections usually bring in about 500 provisional ballots, he said.
