Abdullah Says He Will Not Accept IEC Election Announcement

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah stated on Wednesday if the Independent Election Commission failed to address his demands, he would reject the IEC’s statement about the election results.

In a statement released on his Facebook page, CE Abdullah declared that his electoral team wouldn’t stay indifferent to the announcement of the election results before their “legitimate demands” are addressed by IEC.

This comes as IEC said on Tuesday that the result of the presidential election might be announced today (Wednesday).

“Two decisions are to be taken, and based on law, it will take 12 hours to announce the results,” said a member of the independent commission of election.

This comes as the votes from 27 provinces have been recounted. However, CE Abdullah’s election team has objected to the vote recount process within the remaining seven provinces.

In addition, Homayoun Jareer, a member of Hekmatyar’s ticket stressed that the country will face a crisis if the government does not address this issue.

Organizations monitoring the Afghan election believe that the preliminary results should be announced as soon as possible.

“The result announcement without considering demands of electoral tickets can take the election into crisis,” said Habibullah Shinwari a member of Election and Transparency Watch Organization of Afghanistan (ETWA).