The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan announced the preliminary presidential election results after a prolonged delay.
Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive Officer of the National Unity Government of Afghanistan and the only serious rival of President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in the 2019 presidential election, has filed over 4,000 complaints over the preliminary presidential election results.
"VAN" (International Desk) :: Hawa Alam Nuristani, the head of Independent Election Commission announced the preliminary election results of the Afghan presidential elections held on September 28.
According to the results announced, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has secured 923,868 out of 1,824,401 votes casted which makes almost 50.64%.
Ghani’s main rival Abdullah Abdullah has got 720,099 votes which makes 39.52% of the total votes casted.
Gulbduddin Hekmatyar with 70,243 (3.85%), Rahmatullah Nabil with 33921 (1.86%) and Faramarz Tammana with 18,066 (0.99%) votes respectively stand on 3rd, 4th and 5th places.
The candidates have 72 hours to file complaints with the electoral complains commission after the preliminary results announcement, said Nuristani.
On the September 28, 4.55% of Afghanistan’s population took risk and participated in the presidential election, casting their votes; out of which nearly 2.3% have voted to Mohammad Ashraf Ghani.
The Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan reported that the participation proportion was 31/69% gender-based.
31% women had participated in the 2019 presidential election, Hawa Alam Nuristani said.
A map published by the Election Commission indicates that Ghani has the highest votes in the 16 south and easter provinces, however his main rival Abdullah Abdullah has got the highest votes in another 18 provinces of the central and northern provinces of Afghanistan.
In the map below, the blue color indicates Abdullah Abdullah’s highest votes zones and the green color shows the places Ashraf Ghani has secured highest votes from.
The Independent Election Commission announced the preliminary election results on Sunday, in which President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has secured the highest votes with 50.64% and Abdullah Abdullah has got 39.52% votes.
Hawa Alam Nuristani, the head of Independent Election Commission said the candidates have only 72 hours to file their complains with the Electoral Complaints Commission.
The ‘Stability and Convergence’ electoral team has filed over 4,000 complaints so far, most of which could be over the 300,000 controversial votes that have been counted by the IEC.
Abdullah’s supporters in 20 provinces protested against the 300,000 votes earlier this month and demanded invalidation by IEC.
The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission office has said to review the complaints with full attention and high transparency and will share the results back with IEC within next five weeks.
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