{"id":85829,"date":"2014-05-15T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=85829"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:51:42","slug":"afghan-presidential-election-heads-to-runoff-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=85829","title":{"rendered":"Afghan presidential election heads to runoff in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No candidate won enough votes to secure outright victory in the first round of the Afghan presidential poll, the election commission said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The election will proceed to a runoff on June 14 between <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/26\/world\/asia\/afghan-elections-candidate-profiles\/index.html\">former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani<\/a>, the two candidates who received the highest number of votes.<\/p>\n<p>In the first-round, in which around 7 millions Afghans voted on April 5, Abdullah secured 45% of the vote, while Ghani got 31.6%. A candidate needs to receive more than 50% of the votes to win the first round and avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n<p>The final results from the runoff will be announced on July 22, the election commission said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third election since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, and is set to be the first democratic transfer of power in the fragile, war-torn country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No candidate won enough votes to secure outright victory in the first round of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}