President Ashraf Ghani’s re-election campaign on Monday called for the date of release results of the 28 September vote to be announced soon.
IEC missed two deadlines it had set for the announcement of preliminary results from the poll with the last being November 14. A new date has not been announced yet.
The commission has cited technical issues and blocking of partial recount by supporters of presidential candidates for the delay.
Ghani’s electoral team State-Builder in a statement urged IEC to determine new timeline for election results announcement and not miss it again.
Several presidential candidates have boycotted the partial poll recount saying they would not agree to the addition of hundreds of thousands of votes casted out of the timeframe of September 28 election.
Ghani’s team said that IEC took decision to recount votes based on laws and procedures.
The team accused those who have boycotted the process of taking “people’s will hostage for political ransom.”
The statement also rejected claims of partisanship of security forces in election process.
