KABUL, Afghanistan  Afghanistan’s attorney general expressed hope on Tuesday that a special court appointed by the president to look into election fraud would throw out the results of the country’s parliamentary elections, and predicted that the court would delay this week’s planned inauguration of a new Parliament.

Speaking in an interview, Mohammed Ishaq Aloko, the attorney general and a strong supporter of President Hamid Karzai, said his investigation of the September parliamentary elections uncovered such widespread fraud that the results should be annulled. Although the decision was up to the special court, he said invalidating the election seemed the most plausible step.

Mr. Aloko said, “Since there is not enough time before the inauguration of Parliament for the special court to come to its decision, there are two options  to delay seating Parliament until the court decides, or to inaugurate Parliament this week and afterwards the special court could remove anyone found guilty of fraud and replace them.”

He said that he preferred the first option, and that he hoped that such a decision by the court would pave the way for new elections. “My view and the view of the attorney general’s office is that it should be declared invalid, and new elections should be held,” he said.