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| Afghan House Speaker Votes End with no Results | |
| 2011-01-30 | |
Yonus Qanooni, Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Abdul Zaher Qadir and Mirwais Yasini were competing to win majority of votes, but only Qanooni and Sayyaf were the two candidates with majority of votes. On the second day on Saturday the second round of voting was launched and consequently Sayaf won 119 votes and Mr Qanooni received 116, but once again they couldn"t make it up to the 50+1 and the third round is expected to be held tomorrow. At the same time Afghan Senate launched voting to determine a head in the senate house. Despite President Karzai"s opposition to the voting in Senate House, Fazl Ahmad Mohammedanyar was elected as head of the Afghan Senate. In the Senate House vote, 65 senators were competing to win the seat and finally Fazl Ahmad Mohammedanyar was elected as the head, Mohammad Alam Ezedyar as the first deputy and Rafiullah Gul Afghan as the second deputy of the Afghan Senate. President Karzai had previously called on senators to postpone the vote until appointed members of the senate house are introduced. | |
| Posted by:Fred |