Tolo News: NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, referring to the delayed election process in Afghanistan, said “it is important” for Afghan electoral organizations to ”finalize the counting” and “present their results.” Click here to read more (external link). Related Presidential Candidates: We Won’t Accept Election Result We Cannot Invalidate Differing Votes: IEC Chairwoman (Hawa Alam Nooristani)
Tolo News: Presidential candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar at a news conference on Tuesday said that those involved in electoral fraud should be brought to court. He insisted that out of 2.5 million votes, 1.2 million are fraudulent and have been cast in favor of a certain campaign team. Hekmatyar had a list of demands: Click here
Ariana: An official at the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) stated on Monday that preparations for a possible runoff are underway in the commission. However, election watchdogs stress that IEC does not have the capability of managing a possible runoff. Click here to read more (external link). More Election Related News Nabil Boycotts Vote Recounting
Tolo News: Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, a three-time presidential contender, on Sunday criticized the Independent Election Commission, or IEC, for “ignoring” the demands of presidential candidates to sort out disputed votes, saying efforts are underway to add “fraudulent votes” into the total number tallied from the September 28 election day. Click here to read more (external
Tolo News: The head of the Independent Election Commission, Hawa Alam Nuristani, said during a Saturday press conference that the vote recount and auditing process will resume in the remaining provinces on Sunday. Nuristani said that the Independent Election Commission “agreed” with the candidates protesting the process. Click here to read more (external link). Related IEC
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 13, 2019 The preliminary results from Afghanistan’s presidential election have been postponed for a second time, election officials say, a new delay that is likely to fuel more political uncertainty and fraud allegations. Independent Election Commission (IEC) spokesman Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi said on November 13 that the results will not
Ariana: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has formally complained to the leadership of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) over Commissioner Maulana Abdullah’s threatening behavior towards the Data Manager of the IEC National Tally Center. “During the meeting, UNESP technical advisers and the International Commissioners witnessed direct life-threatening statements being made against Mr. Bashir
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 10, 2019 The leading challenger to incumbent Ashraf Ghani in Afghanistan’s presidential election more than a month ago has withdrawn his team of observers from the ongoing and acrimonious official recount. Candidate and longtime Ghani rival Abdullah Abdullah, the current chief executive in a power-sharing deal that cleared the path
Ariana: Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday officially launched the recounting process of suspicious votes. However, electoral campaigns of Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Rahmatullah Nabil boycotted the process. Ghani’s State-Builder team says it support the recount process. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: The Independent Election Commission on Sunday said that it will start the recounting of votes in 34 provinces on Monday. The commission on Saturday released new vote numbers, saying that the Dermalog company had identified 1,843,107 valid votes out of the 1,929,333 votes already transferred to the commission’s central database. But election observers—primarily from