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Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former foreign minister, has been leading over rival Ashraf Ghani in Afghan presidential election results but remains below the fifty percent threshold needed for victory.
Thursday’s results showed Abdullah with 43.8 percent of the vote and Ghani with 32.9 percent, election officials said.
Only 80 percent of the votes have been counted so far.
To win, a candidate must secure more than 50 percent of votes. Failing that, the top two candidates will go into a run-off.
As the estimated seven million votes are tallied a discernible winner seems unlikely.
"With the percentage of votes (still to be counted), I suspect there will not be a winner in the first round, but I cannot say decisively," Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, head of the Independent Election Commission, said.
Both Abdullah and Ghani, a former World Bank economist, have vowed to push on.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2...515305773.html
Thursday’s results showed Abdullah with 43.8 percent of the vote and Ghani with 32.9 percent, election officials said.
Only 80 percent of the votes have been counted so far.
To win, a candidate must secure more than 50 percent of votes. Failing that, the top two candidates will go into a run-off.
As the estimated seven million votes are tallied a discernible winner seems unlikely.
"With the percentage of votes (still to be counted), I suspect there will not be a winner in the first round, but I cannot say decisively," Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, head of the Independent Election Commission, said.
Both Abdullah and Ghani, a former World Bank economist, have vowed to push on.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2...515305773.html
