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Karzai's re-election 'not legitimate'
Press
TV
Wednesday, Nov 4th, 2009
Hamid Karzai's main electoral rival has condemned
election officials' decision to declare him president, saying
Karzai's re-election lacks 'legitimacy'.
Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday pulled
out of a run-off poll scheduled for November after more than
a million votes cast in the August 20 election were discarded
as fraudulent.
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) cancelled
the second term the next day and declared Karzai president for
another five-year term.
The president's re-election was welcomed by the UN chief Ban
Ki-moon and leaders from Western allies, who urged him a prompt
'eradication of government corruption'.
Abdullah, however, charged Wednesday that the IEC decision
to declare his rival Karzai as president had 'no legal basis'.
In his first public appearance after Karzai's re-election,
Abdullah scoffed at his rival's pledge to fight widespread graft
in Afghanistan and forge national unity, saying 'such a government
which lacks legitimacy cannot fight corruption'.
"A government which comes to power without the people's
support cannot fight phenomena of terrorism threats, unemployment,
poverty and hundreds of other problems," he told reporters.
Abdullah repeated accusations of 'incompetence and bias' against
the IEC, insisting that 'a government which takes power based
on such a commission's decision cannot have legitimacy'.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
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