KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC) has so far registered more than 10,000 complaints from four electoral teams, an official said on Wednesday, expecting more complaints.
Masoud Shams, IECC registration department acting director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that more than 10,000 complaints had been registered by the Stability and Partnership, State Builder, Security and Justice and Peace and Islamic Justice electoral teams as of 1:00pm today (Wednesday).
He said most of the complaints were from provinces and their registration process was practically underway and the number of complaints could increase until the end of today.
He said according the law, the protesting electoral teams could register their complaints till 4:00pm today and after the mentioned time, the IECC could not receive complaints. He said complaints arriving until 4:00pm today would be accepted.
Shams said the complaints could be referred to provincial offices and in case electoral teams did not accept the decisions of provincial offices, then the center office will again assess their complaints.
Jawad Qadari, a representative of the Stability and Partnership electoral team, said they had lodged 7,200 complaints until now and would register 1,000 more complaints till the end of the day
He said their complaints targeted suspected votes, non-biometric votes and votes cast out of time and they had shared enough supporting documents with the IECC, hoping the IECC would separate transparent votes from fraudulent ones.
But Abdul WasiRahmani, a representative of State Builder electoral team led by President Ashraf Ghani, said they had registered 1,700 complaints and their complaints would reach 3,000.
Rahmani added the complaints registered were from 17 provinces and their most were against the Independent Election Commission (IEC).
President Ashraf Ghani has won the September ballot by bagging 50.64 per cent of the votes, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Sunday.
Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdullah Abdullah stood second with 39.52 per cent, the commission said while unveiling the long-delayed preliminary results.
About a million of the initial 2.7 million votes were thrown out due to anomalies, representing the lowest turnout in any election in the country.
On the completion of a vote recount and audit in all process, IEC Chairperson HawaAlamNuristani told a press conference here the number of the biometrically verified votes in the September ballots cast in the election.
Soon after the announcement of poll result, election teams criticised the result and vowed to register their complaints28 election was 1824,404.
GulbadinHekmatyar, leader of the Hezb-i-Islam Afghanistan (HIA), managed to poll 3.85 percent of the votes.
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