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Afghanistan's election commission has announced the partial result of April 5 presidential elections on Sunday under which Dr. Abdullah Abdullah was in lead followed by former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and ex-foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul.
However, the results have been disputed by the remaining politicians who contended the race to assume the presidential office.
Mohammad Shafiq Gul Agha Shirzai has doubted the fairness of the partial results, saying the finding of his observer team has shown widespread fraud in the polls. "The election was full of fraud and his supporters in some places including Nimroz and Herat provinces confronted with lack of ballot papers to vote on the voting day," Shirzai told local media.
Shirzai also alleged that his ballots had been withdrawn from the ballot boxes in some places.
Another presidential hopeful Daud Sultanzoi also doubted the transparency of the partial results of the elections, saying the results announced by the election commission is unacceptable.
On April 5, more than 7 million Afghans, out of 12 million eligible voters, cast their vote to elect the country's president, and the election commission announced the result of 10 percent of the votes from 26 out of the country's 34 provinces on Sunday.
"Dr. Abdullah Abdullah secured 41.9 percent of partial results followed by Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai who received 37.6 and Dr. Zulmai Rassoul 9.9 percent of the results," chairman of election commission Ahmad Yusuf Nouristani said Sunday.
Meantime, the remaining six hopefuls Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf, Zalmai Rassoul, Qutbudin Hilal, Mohammad Shafiq Gul Agha Shirzai, Daud Sultanzoi and Hadayat Amin Arsalah who have questioned the transparency of the early results of April 5 elections in a joint statement carried by some newspapers on Tuesday warned of dire consequences if their complaints overlooked by the election body.
