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Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah at a polling station in Kabul last September. REUTERS / Omar Sobhani

Two and a half months after the presidential election, no results were communicated. But a thinning may have just arisen with the announcement of Abdullah Abdullah, one of the two presidential candidates who raised his opposition to the counting of votes in the last seven provinces of the country.

Abdullah Abdullah was one of two candidates who had dragged the country into yet another political stalemate by proclaiming himself the winner and accusing his rival, Ashraf Ghani, of electoral fraud. But the end of the crisis may be coming soon. For the past month, his supporters have been blocking polling stations .

A script written in advance?

Abdullah Abdullah had engaged in a standoff with the Election Commission before authorizing the recount of votes. He asked that 300,000 ballots for the presidential election be invalidated because at least a third of these ballots had been slipped into the ballot box outside polling hours, sometimes even several months before the election. .

The authorities apologized and put forward human error. The machine that collects biometric data from voters would have been set incorrectly. This is the official explanation. However, Abdullah Abdullah has another. He believes that the script was written in advance, and that the votes were manipulated to advantage his opponent Ashraf Ghani.

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He is therefore making a major concession with this announcement because it is the third time that he has appeared. In 2009, beaten by Hamid Karzai, he shouted at the dupe game, the puppet installed by the United States. In 2014, he was already competing against Ashraf Ghani . At the time, in the midst of a political crisis, there were suspicions of fraud. And an astonishing solution had been found: a power with two heads.

For the past five years, Afghanistan has been governed by both Ashraf Ghani president and Abdullah Abdullah, chief executive. This election was to decide them once and for all. Except that, so far, there are still no final results.