Afghanistan\u2019s supreme court has extended the term of President Ashraf Ghani until delayed elections take place, an official said Sunday, resolving for now the question of what would happen after his term expires on May 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presidential\n elections were initially slated for April 20, but Afghan poll officials\n were unprepared for a new nationwide vote so soon after October \nparliamentary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the court did not make the \nstatement public, Faraidoon Khwazoon, the deputy spokesman to Afghan \nchief executive Abdullah Abdullah, confirmed the document to AFP, noting\n that Abdullah\u2019s term had also been extended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYes, the supreme \ncourt has made its decision, based on the constitution, on the extension\n of the service term of the president,\u201d Khwazoon said, adding the \nextension would last \u201cuntil the re-election of the new president\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With\n some final results from that election still pending, the presidential \npoll was delayed until July 20, then pushed back again until September \n28.Ariana News published a statement from the court saying it \u201chas \nextended the service term of President Ghani until the re-election of a \nnew president\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The delayed elections come as the United States \ntries to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban, and some had \nspeculated the polls were being deliberately stalled to create more \nspace for those talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Opposition politicians and presidential \ncontenders had called for an interim government to fill the gap between \nGhani\u2019s mandate expiring and the presidential elections.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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