Afghans began voting on Saturday (September 28) morning in a one-day presidential election to select the country's new leader for the next five years.
Election workers wait for Afghan presidential
candidate Ashraf Ghani to vote in the presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan
September 28, 2019.(Photo: Reuters)
The
polling opened at 7:00 a.m. local time (0230 GMT) and will close at 3:00 p.m.
(1030 GMT) in the country's 34 provinces, according to election officials.
It is the fourth presidential
election in Afghanistan
since 2001, when the Taliban regime was ousted.
A total of 18 contesters are
running for the presidency with a five-year term and among the candidates are
sitting President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and government Chief Executive Abdullah
Abdullah.
Security remains the biggest
challenge for the election.
The Afghan security forces
will provide security for 4,942 out of 5,373 polling centers and the remaining
431 centers located in remote districts will not open on the election day due
to security threats, according to election officials.
Over 9.4 million eligible
voters, 35 percent of them women, registered to cast their votes during
Saturday's polling.
Source: NDO
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