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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter has expressed qualified support for Ethiopia's parliamentary elections but said it was up to the opposition to decide if they accepted the results.
Opposition parties made strong gains in the June polls but continue to argue they were robbed of a victory by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, which was officially declared the winner with 327 seats in the 547-seat parliament.
"The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia's democratization process, including most importantly the introduction of a more competitive electoral process," Carter said Thursday night during his visit to Ethiopia.
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