The newly elected president could not say no to such an invitation.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Some lawmakers were afraid they would not be re-elected.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

She was not a government official or elected representative.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The prime minister makes clear that whatever the outcome of that legal battle, Mr.Yanukovich is,in her view, "not the democratically elected president of Ukraine."

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

"The law as it stands now in the State of Israel is to be commended because elected office is not a shelter for misdeeds,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

"It was during Zia's time that he not only overthrew the government and executed a popular elected populist President Bhutto, but he also invited the Wahabis in from the Gulf in order to counter the Shia revivalism that he feared coming in from Iran."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08