The presidential election took place last September but both incumbent President Ashraf Ghani and his chief minister and chief contenders for the post Abdullah Abdullah claimed they had won.
Abdullah accused Ghani of electoral fraud and demanded that the votes be recalculated. The final result has now been presented by the Election Commission.
- Election Commission. . . announces that Ashraf Ghani, who received 50.64 percent of the vote, is the president of Afghanistan, said the authority's head Hawa Alam Nuristani at a press conference in Kabul.