New Election Called Decision Is the Right One for Afghanistan
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I I N THE mountains of Afghanistan, the snow is falling. By November 7, it may have paralysed large areas of the country. Nevertheless, there were audible sighs of relief yesterday when Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced that voters would return to the polling booths on that day in a runoff, pitting him against his nearest rival Abdullah Abdullah.
After weeks of delay and the painstaking examination of millions of questionable ballots, the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) finally announced what everyone knew already: that there had been "widespread" fraud in the initial poll. So widespread, in fact, that Mr Karzai could not be deemed to have attracted the 50per cent of the poll needed to avoid a second round.See the full content of this document
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New Election Called Decision Is the Right One for Afghanistan
Had Mr Karzai rejected the ECC's report or delayed a further poll until the spring, a dangerous polit...
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