(CNN) — Candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday demanded an evident hindrance to a counting of ballots in Afghanistan’s presidential runoff election, alleging widespread fraud.
In a live news discussion on Tolo TV, Abdullah pronounced his debate was suspending “engagement with a (election) commission” and recalling his celebration monitors from choosing elect offices.
He pronounced there was “no approach a counting could continue in a deficiency of (his campaign’s) monitors.”
Noor Mohammed Noor, a orator for a choosing commission, pronounced a count would proceed. He pronounced a elect could not envision either a counting routine has been successful during this stage.
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Noor asked that any complaints be funded until a leader is announced.
The formula have been scheduled to be expelled Jul 22, according to a choosing commission.
Abdullah, who forsaken out of a presidential competition in 2009 since of what he called large-scale voter fraud, took to Twitter to amplify his box for interlude this year’s count, saying:
— “It is a right of a people to urge their vote. Fraud is holding place in each dilemma of a nation and spiteful a Afghan people.”
— “Counting routine should be stopped since this routine is not pure during all. we announce this as a claimant for Afghanistan’s presidential election.”
Saturday’s runoff between Abdullah, a nation’s former unfamiliar minister, and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani was injured by violence. Afghan Deputy Interior Minister Gen. Mohammad Ayoub Salangi pronounced 10 Afghan soldiers, 14 civilians and 19 insurgents were killed in a day that saw scarcely 150 attacks via a country.
In a ubiquitous choosing on Apr 5, Abdullah cumulative 45% of a vote, and Ghani was second with 31.6%. A claimant contingency accept some-more than 50% of a votes for a choosing to be motionless though a runoff.
Although once an fan of effusive President Hamid Karzai, Abdullah has in new years turn an competition and outspoken censor of a Taliban.
Ghani — also a former confidant to Karzai and financial apportion in his cupboard — was once a U.S. citizen, though gave adult his pass to run for a Afghan presidency in 2009.
CNN’s Masoud Popalzai and Aliza Kassim contributed to this report.