{"id":94205,"date":"2020-02-18T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/ashraf-ghani-wins-presidential-polls\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:01:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:01:38","slug":"ashraf-ghani-wins-presidential-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/ashraf-ghani-wins-presidential-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashraf Ghani wins presidential polls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KABUL (SW) – The Independent Election Commission on Tuesday declared incumbent President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani eventual winner of the polls held in September last year.<\/p>\n

Announcing the long-awaited final results of the Sept. 28 polls, Hava Alam Nuristani, the female chief election commissioner, said Ghani has secured the required minimum of 50 per-cent-plus votes to secure the top position. Ghani secured 923592 votes out of the total of 1.823948 votes with 50.64 %.<\/p>\n

Ghani’s main rival, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah came second with 39.5% of votes.<\/p>\n

In the preliminary results, Ghani, the head of the National Unity government, was declared the winner with 923,868 votes and Abdullah Abdullah got 720,990 votes.<\/p>\n

A few minutes before the election results were announced, Nur Rahman AKhlaqi, a member of Abdullah’s Peace and Stability team, wrote: "An illegitimate body announces an illegitimate result in explicit violation of the law and it is a ‘coup’ against democracy and votes of the people. The leaders of<\/p>\n

Peace and Stability team have reached a clear decision on the government's announcement of the team's address have come to a clear conclusion. What happens next is the responsibility of those who violate the law and disrupt the rules of the game”.<\/p>\n

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