the Afghan election results.

[Leslie]

Waiting since October makes 11 days seem not so bad, eh?

Hamid Karzai has been officially declared the winner of Afghanistan's landmark presidential election

The chairman of the nation's electoral board made the announcement at a ceremony in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday afternoon.

The announcement came after a panel probing voting irregularities said they would not affect the outcome.

Mr Karzai, who is attending the funeral of the United Arab Emirates president, won 55.4% of the vote on 9 October.



Congratulations

"His Excellency Hamid Karzai is the winner of the election. We are announcing the first elected president of Afghanistan," the electoral board chairman, Zakim Shah, said.

linkie

so that's done with, lets see what he does with it now.
*puts feet up and waits with interest*

 

[Gonz]

Imagine, the first election in the long & varied history of a country as old as Afghanistan, and everybody got a vote. Women, men, landowners, "renters", elite & peasant.

Good for them.