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"Juro que respetaré los preceptos del islam y la legislación de Afganistán, garantizaré la independencia de la nación afgana y, con la ayuda de Dios, los derechos de todos los afganos y el progreso de este país". Con estas palabras el economista de etnia pastún Ashraf Ghani ha tomado posesión del cargo este lunes como nuevo presidente electo de Afganistán, en sustitución a Hamid Karzai, en el poder desde la caída del régimen talibán a final de 2001.

El economista Ashraf Ghani ha sido proclamado finalmente hoy domingo ganador de las elecciones presidenciales en Afganistán. El anuncio se ha producido poco después de que Ghani alcanzara un acuerdo de reparto del poder con su rival Abdullah Abdullah, quien desde hace tres meses cuestionaba el resultado electoral. Sus acusaciones de fraude no sólo ensombrecieron los comicios, sino que han dado alas a los insurgentes talibanes en víspera de la retirada de las tropas extranjeras.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Monday reiterated his stance, saying he rejected the result of the mid-June runoff.

He renewed his commitment to defending people’s votes and the election of new leadership based on genuine ballots. But Abdullah said he would not accept a government elected through fraud.

Addressing a gathering of supporters in Kabul, he said the international community had evinced its interest in facilitating a solution to the election crisis.

The Independent Election Commission's (IEC) spokesman, Noor Mohammad Noor said that the 100 percent audit of vote's process has been completed after 48 days on Thursday night, which was set to build confidence between the two candidates so that issues do not arise in the future.

Noor said that the majority of fraud took place by "the government, government officials and supporters of both candidates and not by the IEC employees." Currently, the IEC is working on entering the checklists into the database.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Of the 29 percent of ballots from the presidential election that were audited as recently as Monday noon, 54,000 votes of Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and 31,000 of Dr. Abdullah were found bogus, officials said on Tuesday.

The statistics provided to Pajhwok Afghan News by one electoral team show that Ghani retains enough lead with 1,210,602 votes over Abdullah, who has bagged 1, 081,645 ballots so far. The total votes recounted hitherto amount to 29 percent of all ballots cast in the second round of the presidential elections.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Monday declared as final the latest UN-proposed criteria for invalidation of suspected votes, saying extra attention would be paid to the remaining two controversial points in order to gain confidence of both the candidates.

The huge audit remained suspended as of Sunday morning and Abdullah’s team remained locked in talks with UN officials over the recount.

Kabul, Afghanistan - The military airport in the Afghan capital is busy, as shipments of ballot boxes from across the country arrive to be audited after top presidential candidates agreed for recount of votes amid allegations of fraud. 

The Independent Election Commissions of Afghanistan (IEC), along with international and domestic observers and party representatives have begun the tedious task of filtering through all the 8.1 million ballots, searching for any irregularities that could be counted as fraudulent votes.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The vote audit process was resumed again on Thursday after 48 hours of suspension for training representatives of the presidential candidates and election observers, a source in the Independent Election Commission (IEC) confided to Pajhwok Afghan News.

Audit process was suspended last Tuesday due to some irregularities and mismanagement in the IEC office.

Bruselas, 13 jul (EFE).- La Unión Europea (UE) manifestó hoy su satisfacción por el acuerdo alcanzado entre los dos candidatos afganos a las presidenciales del país sobre la celebración de una auditoría de los resultados de esos comicios.

“Damos la bienvenida al acuerdo entre los candidatos afganos a las presidenciales, Abdulá Abdulá y Ashraf Gani Ahmadzai, para que haya una auditoría global de los resultados” de los comicios, señaló el Servicio Europeo de Acción Exterior (SEAE) en un comunicado.