{"id":14650,"date":"2020-02-19T02:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/ashraf-ghani-wins-afghan-presidential-election"},"modified":"2020-02-19T02:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:35:33","slug":"ghani-declared-winner-of-afghan-election-but-opponent-rejects-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14650","title":{"rendered":"Ghani declared winner of Afghan election &#8211; but opponent rejects result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent gained just over 50% of September votes but Abdullah\u2019s team reject results<\/p>\n<p>Five months after Afghans went to the polls to choose a new president, election authorities have declared the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, the winner, but his main opponent has rejected the result and said he will form his own \u201cinclusive government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After a heavily contested poll, Ghani officially scraped just over 50% of votes, averting a second round run-off. But hours after the election results were announced, rival Abdullah Abdullah <a href=\"https:\/\/tolonews.com\/afghanistan\/abdullah-rejects-results-announces-formation-%E2%80%98inclusive-govt%E2%80%99\">declared himself the victor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/ashraf-ghani-wins-afghan-presidential-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent gained just over 50% of September votes but Abdullah\u2019s team reject resultsFive months after Afghans went to the polls to choose a new president, election authorities have declared the incumbent, Ashraf Ghani, the winner, but his main opponent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[46,621,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ashraf-ghani","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/14650","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14651,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions\/14651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}