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Karzai 'heading for election win' | Karzai 'heading for election win' |
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's campaign chief says he has won enough votes to secure a majority without the need for a second round run-off. | Afghan President Hamid Karzai's campaign chief says he has won enough votes to secure a majority without the need for a second round run-off. |
Deen Mohammad told Reuters news agency: "Initial results show that the president has got a majority. We will not go to a second round." | Deen Mohammad told Reuters news agency: "Initial results show that the president has got a majority. We will not go to a second round." |
But a spokesman for Mr Karzai's chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, has also claimed victory. | |
Millions of Afghans defied Taliban threats to vote in Thursday's election. | |
Official results had not been expected for a couple of weeks, but the Afghan Election Commission confirmed on Friday that ballot counting was over for the presidential election in all parts of the country. | |
One election commission official, Zekria Barakzai, told the AFP news agency that he expected the official results to be announced next week. | |
"The turnout was different from south to the north and central parts of Afghanistan but still it is satisfactory and I expect that turnout will be from 40 to 50%," he said. | "The turnout was different from south to the north and central parts of Afghanistan but still it is satisfactory and I expect that turnout will be from 40 to 50%," he said. |
Deen Mohammad told Reuters that his claim of a Karzai victory was based on reports from nearly 29,000 monitors his campaign team had at polling stations across the country. | |
But Abdullah Abdullah's spokesman Fazl Sangcharaki denied Mr Mohammad's claims. | |
"It isn't true," he said. "We also say, 'May be we don't need a second round and Abdullah won'." |