Tolo News: Some of Afghanistan’s mainstream political leaders and former mujahideen figures on Thursday vowed to defy the establishment of a government arising from “electoral fraud.” Among the main critics was CE Abdullah Abdullah, who reiterated that he will always defend the valid votes of the Afghan people. Click here to read more (external link). Related
Tolo News: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, presidential election candidate and head of Hizb-e-Islami, at a press conference on Monday called the preliminary election results “false.” “We did not expect that the Independent Election Commission would announce such a false result,” said Hekmatyar, adding: “We have asked the independent Election Commission (IEC) to re-hold the election in those areas
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 22, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s incumbent President Ashraf Ghani has apparently won a second five-year term based on preliminary results announced Sunday for the disputed September 28 presidential vote. The head of the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) released the long-delayed outcomes at a news conference in Kabul, noting that
Tolo News: Afghanistan`s Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Saturday that the recount process in the seven remaining provinces has been completed and it will announce the initial results tomorrow. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s team said they will not accept the presidential results. Click here to read more (external link). Related Election Impasse Impacting the National Economy: MPs
Tolo News: Officials from the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Friday said they are nearly finished with the data entry of votes from seven provinces out of 34 and that the commission will likely announce the preliminary results of the election on Sunday. Meanwhile, some election campaigns have said that those campaigns that are guilty of
AFP: Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s delayed presidential polls will be announced in the coming days, an election official said Thursday, after a main candidate ended his boycott of a recount. The country has been stuck in political limbo since the vote, with the two top candidates – President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah
1TV: Three Afghan electoral teams on Wednesday jointly urged the Attorney General’s Office to prosecute election commissioner Mohammad Hanif Danishyar for allegedly faking age. In a letter to AGO, the campaigns of Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Rahmatullah Nabil said that Danisyar did not complete the minimum age of 35 required for the post, adding
Ariana: Abdullah’s electoral campaign warned that if the votes of 27 provinces are not recounted, they will not accept the preliminary results of the election. They insist that Independent electoral complaints commission should cooperate with them in this process. Meanwhile, the IECC stressed that this ‘demand’ will create problems. Younus Nawandish, a member of Abdullah’s
Tolo News: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) is set to start the recount of votes in the seven remaining provinces (out of 34) on Sunday after presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Friday asked his supporters in the provinces to stop blocking the election centers and let the process continue. The seven provinces are Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Jawzjan,
Tolo News: Sources told Tolonews on Wednesday that leading members of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) disagree about the announcement of election results. This comes a day after IEC Commissioner Awrangzeb said that the commission was considering announcing the results on Wednesday. Maulana Mohammad Abdullah, a commissioner of the IEC, said that by law the IEC