KABUL: (MEP) – Eight days after polling the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday announced partial result of presidential election.
The IEC counted 10 percent votes of 26 provinces. According to the partial result Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is ahead than other presidential hopefuls.
Chairman of the IEC, Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani, said that partial result has been announced on basis of 10 percent votes count from 26 provinces of Afghanistan while ballots from eight other provinces were not counted yet.
Speaking at a press conference here he said that 506,843 votes (10 percent) cast in 26 provinces have been counted till date.
According to the preliminary result, Dr. Abdullah got 212, 312 votes (41.9%), Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai got 190,561 votes (37.6%), Dr. Zalmai Rasoul got 49,821 (9.8%) votes, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf got 25,679 (5.1%) votes, Eng. Qutbudin Helal got 13,536 (2.7 %) votes, Mohammad Shafiq Gul Agha Sherzai got 11,132 (2.2 %) votes, Dawod Sultanzai got 2,442 (0.5%) votes, and Hedayat Amin Arsala got 1,360 (0.3 %) votes, he added.
He said the result was not final and position of the candidates would change as counting process goes further. “It is still too early to tell that election would go to second round, but the IEC is ready if it happened,” Nuristani said.
Badakhshan, Baghlan, Ghor, Nuristan, Daykundi, Paktika, Wardak, and Gahzni were not included in the partial result.
He said the IEC has received 85 percent ballot boxes from 34 provinces and counting is in progress. “So in near future we will announce a high percentage result based on more votes count.”
If any case required re-assessment then IEC would do so as per rules and in the presence of candidates, parties’ representatives, and observers, he underlined.
