KABUL) on Saturday said the presidential election’s initial results would be announced today if no technical challenge occured.
IEC commissioner Mohammad Hanif Danishyar told media persons here that if the IEC secretariat shared its report with the IEC board, then they would take a decision.
He said if they received the report, after its study and in case of technical challenges, the presidential election result would be declared tonight.
Habib Rahman Nang, IEC secretary, said result forms of the seven provinces had been completed and work on preliminary result was underway.
He said the IEC secretariat report will be shared within few hours with the IEC board, saying after that, the IEC board will make their decision.
He termed the election process as transparent and assured the results would be announced soon.
But Mohammad Younis Nawandish, a member of the Stability and Partnership electoral team, told media persons at the IEC hall that the vote recount and audit process in 27 provinces had been completed without their and some electoral teams’ observers’ presence and should be conducted again.
Nawandish said, “As long as the vote recount and audit process in the 27 provinces does not take place in presence of our observers, the presidential election results will not be acceptable to us.”
A few days back. Abdullah Abdullah, the Stability and Partnership electoral team, leader asked his supporters to allow the IEC to complete the vote recount and audit process in the remaining seven provinces.
However, Abdul Qadir Hotkhel, a member of the ‘State Builder’ electoral team, said Dr. Abdullah’s team was trying to hostage the election process by making such excuses
He urged the IEC to complete its job based on the law and allow no one to hostage the process.
Earlier the IEC had given October 19 the date for announcement of preliminary result while November 7 for announcement of final result of the presidential election.
Presidential election was held on September 28. But due to some technical issues and problems during separation of clean and fraudulent votes, the IEC could not announce the result on its due date.
On October 27, the IEC said that primary result of the presidential election would be announced on November 14, but the commission again delayed it for an indefinite time.
The IEC has audited and recounted votes of a number of polling stations belonged to 27 out of total 34 provinces of the country. However, a number of presidential tickets including Stability and Partnership led by Dr. Abdullah Abdullah boycotted the process.
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