Karzai keeps on lead in Afghan presidential election
Published: 26/08/2009 05:00
The sitting Afghan president Hamid Karzai is keeping on lead over major rival Abdullah Abdullah in Afghan presidential election as the Independent Election Commission (IEC) Wednesday released more partial results.
When the first partial result came on Tuesday, Karzai had a lead of only 2 percentage point over Abdullah. Former Planning Minister Ramazan Bashardost took the third place with 108,000 votes, or 11.5 percent, the chief electoral officer said. IEC said about one million votes have been counted, based on 17.2 percent of the polling stations nationwide, and among them, about 60,000 were invalid. If no candidate can receive over 50 percent of the total ballots in the Aug. 20 election, a runoff will be held in October. IEC said that the results will be updated daily and the official final result is expected on Sept. 17. Karzai’s Finance Minister, Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal, claimed on Monday that Karzai gained 68 percent of ballots so a runoff could not happen, but it was not confirmed by IEC. Allegations of fraud have cast shadow on the election. Over 400 complaints have been filed with Afghan Electoral Complaint Commission, including some 40 serious enough to affect the results if confirmed, according to the commission. VietNamNet/Xinhuanet
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