Afghan election: Run-off cancelled, Karzai declared winner

Presidential candidate Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner by the country's election commission in Afghanistan. The announcement comes after the presidential runoff was cancelled following the withdrawal of Karzai's only challenger. Karzais vote reached 49 per cent, and his opponent 31 per cent after first round of elections. Abdullah Abdullah offered HIS response to legitimacy of the election commission.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Abdullah Abdullah
• Afghanistan
• Afghan election
• vote fraud report
• probe
• investigation
• inquiry
• second round
• RT
• runoff cancelled
• Hamid Karzai

[69QuIzAcK69]

CIA puppet in place, now we send in more troops to die. Wonderful. Obama, you will be judged by God someday. We all will. Do the right thing, pull out of Afghanistan. We cannot win. No one has EVER won in Afghanistan. Useless, un-winnable war. Bring them home!

[DNchap1417]

I Guess Afghanistan is not cut out for "democracy". Abdullah was made an offer he couldn't refuse!

[boldertits]

Wonder if people showed the same hate towards bush for cheating 2 elections.

[Dudtz]

PUPPET REIGIME!

[StupidExtravert]

So.....The first election was fraudulent, then they do a runoff, with no opposition....And now everything is fine? Back to business? Ridiculous

[rsnboy08]

Obamba can be judged by us right now, why wait till god do it?

[bandaidmafia]

Thank goodness they canceled the runoff! I was worried that there would be actually be voter representation in Afghanistan!

[MoscowMaestro]

Yankee-Doodle "Democracy"

[KagarBeardtooth]

...and we wonder why Afghanistan is so unstable? Even IF they wanted a western democratic system, how could they accept a result like THIS?

[igorvasilevsky]

All heil democracy - an opportunity to choose one among only one candidate!

Bravo fuckin USA! Burn in hell!