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| Afghan Candidate Abdullah Withdraws From Audit of Presidential Vote | |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the two presidential candidates in Afghanistan’s hotly disputed election pulled out of an internationally supervised audit of the results on Wednesday. | KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the two presidential candidates in Afghanistan’s hotly disputed election pulled out of an internationally supervised audit of the results on Wednesday. |
| Aides to Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, walked out of the Independent Election Commission’s headquarters here after a series of technical demands about the audit, made by his campaign aides on Tuesday, went unmet. | Aides to Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister, walked out of the Independent Election Commission’s headquarters here after a series of technical demands about the audit, made by his campaign aides on Tuesday, went unmet. |
| United Nations officials supervising the process then asked Mr. Abdullah’s opponent, Ashraf Ghani, to also withdraw from the audit so it could continue with only international and independent observers present, giving neither campaign an unfair advantage. Daud Sultanzoy, head of the Ghani campaign’s audit team, said its observers would accede to the request. | United Nations officials supervising the process then asked Mr. Abdullah’s opponent, Ashraf Ghani, to also withdraw from the audit so it could continue with only international and independent observers present, giving neither campaign an unfair advantage. Daud Sultanzoy, head of the Ghani campaign’s audit team, said its observers would accede to the request. |
| It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Abdullah would accept the eventual results of the audit, which United Nations officials have described as the most exhaustive the world body has ever undertaken. Mr. Abdullah demanded it after finishing as runner-up in the June 14 runoff, which he said had been marred by fraud. | It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Abdullah would accept the eventual results of the audit, which United Nations officials have described as the most exhaustive the world body has ever undertaken. Mr. Abdullah demanded it after finishing as runner-up in the June 14 runoff, which he said had been marred by fraud. |
| Both Mr. Abdullah and Mr. Ghani pledged to Secretary of State John Kerry that they would accept the audit’s conclusions about who had won the election and then would form a government of national unity including officials from both campaigns. | Both Mr. Abdullah and Mr. Ghani pledged to Secretary of State John Kerry that they would accept the audit’s conclusions about who had won the election and then would form a government of national unity including officials from both campaigns. |
| But it was unclear Wednesday whether Mr. Abdullah planned to keep that commitment. He had yet to make a public comment on the matter, but statements from his aides have been negative. On Tuesday, his chief auditor, Fazul Ahmad Manawi, said that if the campaign’s demands for changes to the audit were not met, Mr. Abdullah would pull out of both the audit and the broader election process. “We will not continue to be part of the process, and any result coming out of it will not be acceptable to us and will have no credibility to us,” he said. | But it was unclear Wednesday whether Mr. Abdullah planned to keep that commitment. He had yet to make a public comment on the matter, but statements from his aides have been negative. On Tuesday, his chief auditor, Fazul Ahmad Manawi, said that if the campaign’s demands for changes to the audit were not met, Mr. Abdullah would pull out of both the audit and the broader election process. “We will not continue to be part of the process, and any result coming out of it will not be acceptable to us and will have no credibility to us,” he said. |
| United Nations officials have said that both candidates had agreed to the terms and conditions of the audit but that it was willing to consider changes based on new evidence of fraud that might arise as ballots are reviewed. The officials said they had every intention of continuing with the audit. | United Nations officials have said that both candidates had agreed to the terms and conditions of the audit but that it was willing to consider changes based on new evidence of fraud that might arise as ballots are reviewed. The officials said they had every intention of continuing with the audit. |