{"id":12371,"date":"2019-12-22T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/22\/afghanistan-president-ashraf-ghani-on-track-to-win-second-term"},"modified":"2019-12-22T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T14:57:11","slug":"afghanistan-president-ghani-on-track-to-win-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12371","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan president Ghani on track to win second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary results point to slim majority for incumbent in presidential poll<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s incumbent president, Ashraf Ghani, won a slim majority of votes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/30\/afghan-election-frontrunners-each-claim-victory-ashraf-ghani-abdullah-abdullah\">September\u2019s election<\/a>, according to preliminary results, after a poll that plunged the country into political crisis and was marred by allegations of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said the total turnout in the presidential election was more than 1.8 million with Ghani securing 50.64% \u2013 enough to win in the first round of voting \u2013 beating his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, who shares power with Ghani in a unity government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/22\/afghanistan-president-ashraf-ghani-on-track-to-win-second-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary results point to slim majority for incumbent in presidential pollAfghanistan\u2019s incumbent president, Ashraf Ghani, won a slim majority of votes in September\u2019s election, according to preliminary results, after a poll that plunged the country &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,621,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12372,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}