KABUL: Afghanistan will go for run-off elections on June 14 between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Thursday announced final results of the presidential election held across the country on April 5 which confirmed that the election will go to a run-off on June 14 between the two top candidates, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani.
“After a thorough review, it is clear that no candidate has been able to win more than 50 percent and the election goes to a second round,” a foreign news agency quoted the IEC head Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani as saying.
In the first round, Abdullah Abdullah took 45 percent of the vote and his main opponent Ashraf Ghani secured 31.6 percent votes while six other candidates were eliminated.
The head-to-head election will choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power.
