>>to buy time?<< Sorry, could you elaborate on that, I don't understand the meaning. I'd like to learn if there's some point/concern I might have missed - I hoped the rest would already be obvious to everybody without mentalist traceur explaining it again. Maybe I was wrong there as well.

[sidenote] I've been jumped in by ivgalvez last minute, and I accepted since there were no other [edit: only 2 other] candidates at all until then, even while I had very little time to offer. See my original post where I accepted nomination. [edit: probably my big mistake been I didn't consider properly the effects of that *), since if I hadn't accepted that nomination by ivgalvez (which I did under pressure since late in nomination period) then the nomination period got extended anyway, and that's a good thing in my book] Now another candidate with obviously way better qualifications stepped up, and I felt it's only fair to allow community to get real vote of 3 out of 4 candidates, rather than excluding the late candidate and declare votes moot since there are only 3 men standing (one of them at least not really a good council candidate from beginning - me). The rest is history.
/j

*) [edit2] on second thought, iirc & according to woody's announcements there've been already THREE candidates at that point in time (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=76), one of them "got withdrawn" after nomination period closed (due to pending karma recalculation turned out he's not eligible to stand). So basically I got tricked into thinking there'll be a proper vote for council if only I stand for council election (4 candidates! http://wiki.maemo.org/index.php?titl...ns&oldid=49999), and after nomination period closed, the other candidate got withdrawn and I'm not allowed to withdraw? Fine! Sounds absolutely fair¡