KABUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- While Afghanistan is four month away from the first-ever post-Taliban legislative elections, opposition leader Mohammad Yunus Qanooni Tuesday demanded modification in the country's electoral law.

"The National Understanding Front (NUF) besides demanding changes in the electoral law it also stress for reshuffle in the members of the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB)," he told newsmen after meeting the alliance's leaders.

NUF, an umbrella of 12 small and big groups, has been emerged as the first opposition party in the post-war nation where pluralism is taking root.

The alliance had repeatedly called upon president to appoint the election commission in consultation with opposition parties but the president ignored it, said Qanooni.

"In order to enable our people to elect their true representatives we need to hold a free and transparent elections," he emphasized.

The first-ever Afghan parliamentary poll, which has been postponed twice, is to be held on Sept. 18. Qanooni, who lost to the incumbent president Hamid Karzai in last years' presidential polls, added that he already urged UN office and the US embassy here to use their influence in arranging a free and fair election in the country.

"The bitter experience of presidential elections should not be repeated in the coming parliamentary polls," he said while referring to the reported fraud in the country's last October presidential elections.

Registration of the aspirant candidates for the 249-seat Loya Jirga or national assembly elections, begun on April 30 and so far 800 including 200 women have submitted their nominations.

Opposing any delay in the parliamentary polls, Qanooni said, " the elections should be held as per schedule and it should be held in a transparent manner."

He added,"Tally should take place at voting centers and the government should cooperate in this regard if it really wants transparency in the elections."