Sunday, June 22, 2014
Kabul (BNA) The chairman of Independent Election Commission (IEC) Dr. Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani said yesterday that the partial results of the run-off will be announced with postponement.
Addressing a press conference here yesterday, Nuristani said that the process of vote counting has been continuing and he is ready to respond any question to convince the candidates.
He made the announcement in the wake of presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah who called upon the IEC couple of days ago to stop vote counting; while the partial results of the run-off was expected to come out within days.
The reason for postponement of the partial result, Nuristani said was to ensure transparency in the process.
He also added that so far, the ballot boxes had been received from 32 provinces and the remaining two provinces would soon send the boxes. Nuristani also stated that some 7 million voters was estimated who cast votes in the run-off but form sheets of IEC indicates that more than 7 million people had participated the second round of balloting. On the cooperation of UN in the election process, Nuristani said that IEC has yet to receive the details of mediation by UN. However, he said that anybody can monitor the election process and fair work of the election commission.
