{"id":3538,"date":"2014-04-14T07:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2014-04-14T07:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:02:55","slug":"abdullah-leads-ghani-in-first-partial-results-of-afghan-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/14\/3538\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah leads Ghani in first partial results of Afghan vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/abdullah-abdullah.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah is leading his closest rival Ashraf Ghani in the Afghan presidential election, the country\u2019s Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Sunday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cToday we announce the partial results of 26 provinces with 10 percent of votes counted, these include (provinces) in the north, south, east, west and Kabul,\u201d said Yousuf Nuristani, the IEC chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWith 500,000 votes from 26 provinces Dr Abdullah is leading with 41.9 percent; Dr. Ashraf Ghani has 37.6 percent and is in second; and Zalmai Rassoul has 9.8 percent in third position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A run-off election between the two leading candidates will be triggered if no single candidate gains more than 50 percent of the vote when the final results are announced in late May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of the eight provinces for which results have not been announced, two are in the north (Badakhshan and Baghlan), two in the east (Nuristan and Paktika), central Daykundi, southern Ghazni and Wardak and western Ghor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdullah, who was born to an ethnic Pashtun father and a Tajik mother, is more associated with the northern Tajiks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than seven million people defied bad weather and Taliban threats of violence to vote in the April 5 first round of the election, earning praise from world leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ahead of the vote there were fears that a repeat of the massive fraud which blighted Karzai\u2019s re-election in 2009 would undermine the winner\u2019s legitimacy at a testing time for the war-torn country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah is leading his closest rival Ashraf Ghani in the Afghan presidential election, the country\u2019s Independent Election Commission (IEC) said Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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