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Abdullah Calls IEC Decision "Illegal"
[Quqnoos] Abdullah Abdullah, President Karzai main challenger in election on Wednesday said that election commission took an "illegal decision".Speaking in a news conference in Kabul, Dr Abdullah lashed out at President Karzai for being unable to fight against corruption in his next government. Abdullah, speaking after the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced Karzai as the elected President said that current government, cannot bring legitimacy to the troubled nation. "The decision (declaration of Karzai as president) has no legal base the government doesn't represents Afghan people's wills, so it cannot fight terrorism, poverty, unemployment and hundreds of other obstacles forward," Abdullah said. But he reiterated on his promises to the Afghan people as he made during the election and said that he would observe the government doings and anytime the "national interest demands, he would be ready for sacrifices". About the reasons lies behind his pull out he said that because his "reduced and simple" conditions were not met, he decided not to take part in the runoff. When asked what his reaction was to the declaration of Karzai as president, Abdullah said that he left that to the people of Afghanistan to judge. About his plan to the future Abdullah said that as an Afghan he would further speed up his effort to implement rule of law, democracy and people's centric strategy in Afghanistan. The Afghan election went to runoff after the Karzai enough tallied votes have been tossed out that had been considered the way of pulling out the country form post election crisis. The Afghan election process concluded after a long term controversies and violence that left many people dead in the surge of violence by Taliban as they speeded up their attacks terming it as an American process. President Karzai was declared the elected president after the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah, the sole Karzai's challenger. Karzai's sitting for the second termed raised question about his legitimacy as his tally votes were below 50%, the level needed for outright victory according to the Afghan election law. Posted by: Fred 2009-11-05 |
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