Afghan presidential candidates' teams join audit

August 04, 2014 04:57 pm | Updated April 22, 2016 12:52 am IST - KABUL

An Afghan election official said representatives of both presidential candidates have now joined the audit of ballots from the June election runoff.

Election Commission spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor said observers from the team of former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah joined the internationally supervised process on Monday.

On Sunday, when the audit resumed after a holiday break, only representatives from candidate Ghani Ahmadzai’s team were on hand.

Preliminary results showed Mr. Ahmadzai well ahead of Mr. Abdullah, but both sides alleged fraud. The audit of the more than 8 million votes is likely to take weeks.

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