Others are expected to do the same as the nation prepares for competitive elections.

After that, an interim government would be formed to prepare for elections.

The rest could prepare for elections that would choose a new president and council.

But both sides agree that it would take at the least three months after an agreement is signed to prepare for elections.

Now all of us should restore order and prepare for elections.

The team, he said, could also arrange a cease-fire and prepare for general elections.

They were also asked to prepare for elections no later than October 1994.

On May 20th, he held a meeting of more than 30 centrist groups to start preparing for elections.

"The Government has no more credibility and thus cannot prepare for elections," he said.

The controversy comes as the major parties are preparing for presidential elections in the summer of 1988.