elections when they know it's not going to be seen as a legitimate election ok mr ambassador i mean nic nic says and a lot and a lot of people agree with him around the world that the u.n. is just a fig leaf trying to legitimize the illegal overthrow of a democratically elected leader first let me say i really disagree that arris de is not a significant factor in these upcoming elections since he left in zero four there's been a first for the first time. there's been a democratic process at least for six years on the interim government promised a lot to it to the very good elections in zero six the very questionable and bad not so good elections let me say you know nine and we have a big election coming up this sunday and their opposition candidates and there's the two principal candidates that were mentioned earlier but there are big questions about whether it's going to be free and open or whether the need to pay the freight all party activists are out there subverting the elections so this is where the u.n. comes in the u.s. has been doing a lot of things including together with the orga