IEC delay Wolesi Jirga elections results

KABUL elections preliminary results due the vote’s inspection and recount, an official said on Friday.

IEC Deputy Spokesperson Kubra Rezae said the commission was unable to announce the elections results as per schedule due to recount and inspection of votes.

She said the process of votes inspection and recount was ensure transparency and fairness which was a time consuming process and therefore the commission was unable to announce the results in time.

She did not mention the next date for the announcements of Wolesi Jirga elections results but assure announce them soon.

According to the elections earlier schedule, the preliminary results from the Oct 20-21 Wolesi Jirga polls shall be announced on November 10, but the IEC recently said that the announcement of results from 32 provinces had been delayed to November 23 and from Kabul to December 1.

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