2019 Afghan presidential election

Historical eventSeptember 292019

2019 Afghan presidential election

Violence and low turnout mar the 2019 Afghan presidential election.

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When
Sunday, September 29 20197 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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At a glance

Dates: From 2019-09-28.

Place: Afghanistan.

Type: Afghan presidential elections.

What came before

Background The elections were originally scheduled for 20 April, but the Independent Election Commission announced on 26 December 2018 that they would be postponed until 20 July, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in order to resolve problems that became apparent during the October 2018 parliamentary elections . The additional time will be used to verify voter lists and train election workers on the new biometric identification system. On 20 March 2019, the IEC once again delayed the election,

Timeline

Follows: 2014 Afghan presidential election. Followed by: next Afghan election.

Campaign One of the leading candidates, Mohammad Hanif Atmar , suspended his campaign in August 2019. Atmar's campaign said that the suspension was due to the poor security situation and the ongoing peace process . [ 1 ] The Taliban carried out attacks to disrupt the campaign. On 17 September 2019, a suicide bomber attacked the campaign rally of President Ashraf Ghani, killing 26 people and wounding 42. Less than an hour later,

What happened

Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019. According to preliminary results, which runner-up Abdullah Abdullah appealed against, incumbent Ashraf Ghani was re-elected with 923,592 votes, 50.64% of the vote. After delays over disputed votes, Ghani was declared the winner in the final results on 18 February 2020. Abdullah Abdullah rejected the results and moved to set up his own parallel government and separate inauguration. However,

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