*ISLAMABAD – Some minutes after the announcement of the presidentialelection results by the IEC, the campaign team of Abdullah Abdullahannounced that they do not accept these ‘false’ results.*
Earlier on Sunday, the IEC finally announced the preliminary results of theAfghan presidential election, based on which, Ashraf Ghani topped the listwith more than 50% of the votes. This announcement was followed by mixedreactions by the electoral teams.
The Abdullah’s team solidly rejected the announced results and stressedthat they will not give up on their stand. They claim that the IEC ignoredto clear the 300,000 controversial votes.
“We guarantee to the people of Afghanistan that we will not accept theresults which come from ‘Fraud’. We will stay on our stand and get ourrights with any possible and legal means,” said Farida Momand a member ofAbdullah’s campaign team.
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Apart from Abdullah’s side, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s team also showed theircontradiction to the announced results.
“When the IEC announced the results, it was pretty clear that they weredoing it by command as they were very frightened,” said Mufti Hafiz RahmanNaqi the second deputy of Hekmatyar’s electoral ticket.
