Tolo News: Four months and seven days have passed since the presidential elections were held, but still the exact announcement date of the final results is unclear. On the basis of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) timetable, the commissions—both the IEC and Independent Elections Complaints Commission (IECC)—were supposed to declare the final results on November
Tolo News: Mohammad Qasim Elyasi, the spokesman of the Independent Electoral Complainants Commission (IECC), said they will make a decision about the 300,000 disputed votes soon. Some election campaign team consider the 300,000 votes “fraudulent,” and urged the IECC not to count them. President Ghani achieved 923,868 votes in the first round of the election that
Tolo News: Afghanistan`s Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) said on Thursday that their investigation has shown that 1,645 polling centers will be recounted in 18 provinces, and the recounting process will start on Saturday. Mohammad Qasim Elyasi, spokesman for the IECC, said that most of the polling centers that need recounting are located in Nangarhar
Tolo News: The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) said up to 8,500 complaints from 31 provinces are “serious” and can impact the total number of votes – which is more than 1.8 million. The preliminary presidential election results were announced on December 22 and the IECC received over 16,500 complaints mainly from three campaign teams –
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
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