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Political Process Has Entered Deadlock: Abdullah

Political Process Has  Entered Deadlock: Abdullah

KABUL - Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced that the political process has entered a deadlock, during a press conference in Kabul on Monday.

Throughout the conference Abdullah explained detail by detail that there was no legitimacy in the entirety of the election process.

"The audit process has completed and the invalidation process is underway, but we still don't have information on the extra one million votes," Abdullah asserted. "We will not accept the results that are on the basis of fraud."

He said that the election commissions—Independent Election Commission (IEC) and Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC)—did not address his camps' concerns and was not "willing to disclose the frauds."

Abdullah criticized, what he calls, the haste commencement of the audit process that added to the reasons for him and his team to announce they would not accept the outcome.

"The audit was aimed to assist in bringing about a political agreement. But there were issues over the audit and invalidation criteria from the very beginning."

Further into the press conference, Abdullah said that talks with rival Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai on the formation of the National Unity Government has failed, adding that from today onwards the process is at a standstill.

Abdullah did not state what his next move is, but joyfully said that he had "won both rounds" and that the "people will decide what is next."

"I will not accept a fraudulent government; not even for a single day," he said with pride. "When we entered the political process our, rival team thought we will be defeated. But our political engagement does not mean we are in second. We are the winner(s) on the basis of the peoples' votes."

In his closing statements, Abdullah stressed to the public that they should not connect the political events of today with Tuesday's commemoration of the martyrs.

"We do not condone violence. Everything that is being done is within the legal framework."

Monday's announcement has led the nation into a much longer anticipated presidential election, which has been felt by the people of Afghanistan economically and security wise for more than five months. The nation can only watch to see what Abdullah and his team have outlined in their next moves.

"We value the national interest." (Tolonews)