{"id":76878,"date":"2019-12-23T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76878"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:57:07","slug":"afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-wins-2nd-term-in-preliminary-vote-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-wins-2nd-term-in-preliminary-vote-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan president Ashraf Ghani wins 2nd term in preliminary vote count"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghanistan\u2019s president won a second term with 50.6 per cent of the preliminary vote count, but his opponents can still challenge result, according to an announcement Sunday by the country\u2019s election commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results for the September 28 presidential polls have been repeatedly delayed amid accusations of misconduct and technical problems with counting ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ghani appears to have beaten out his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah, who serves as the country\u2019s chief executive in a fragile national unity government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abdullah agreed earlier in December to allow a ballot recount in provinces where his supporters had stopped the process for over a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Afghan Election Commission had tried to launch a ballot recount in November but Abdullah halted the attempt, saying he wouldn\u2019t let his observers participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s president won a second term with 50.6 per cent of the preliminary vote count, but his opponents can still challenge result, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76880,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76878\/revisions\/76880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}