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| Six Afghan pres. candidates reject partial results |
| 2014-04-14 |
| [Iran Press TV] Six of the eight Afghan presidential candidates have rejected partial results that put former foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... , in the lead. On Sunday, the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced that with 10 percent of the ballots counted, "Dr. Abdullah is leading with 41.9 percent; Dr. Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002, Ahmadzai was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has 37.6 percent and is in second; and Zalmai Rassoul ... former foreign minister and a very close confidant of Hamid Karzai. Before serving as foreign minister Rassoul also spent seven years laboring as a national security adviser to the president. An ethnic Pashtun born in Kabul, Rassoul was the valedictorian of his class at the illustrious Franco-American school in Kabul, Lycee Istiqal. He has an MD from the Paris Medical School in France..... has 9.8 percent in third position." The IEC said the front-runner could easily change as counting continues in the coming days. Following the announcement, the candidates rejected the results and called for an investigation into the allegations of fraud in the polls. Possible electoral fraud remains an important concern, but the country's election complaints commission said it would take weeks before it rules on the issue. The UN has appealed for calm until the vote count ends. The counting of votes will continue until April 20 with results expected on 24. IEC authorities said unless there is an outright winner with more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a run-off between the two leading candidates at the end of May. The election came ahead of the planned 2014 withdrawal of US-led foreign troops from Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 What, hanging chads? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-14 14:12 |
| #1 Abdullah Abdullah (Pashto: عبدالله عبدالله, born on September 5, 1960) is a politician in Afghanistan and a doctor of medicine. He was an adviser and a close friend of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader and commander known as the "Lion of Panjshir," who was assassinated in September 2001.[2] After the fall of the Taliban regime, Dr. Abdullah served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 until 2005. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-04-14 01:22 |