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KABUL - Afghanistan's election authority said Friday it could not confirm claims by President Hamid Karzai's team that he won landmark polls and called for candidates to await the final results.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the campaign team of Abdullah Abdullah claimed the opposition presidential candidate was ahead of Karzai based on partial results they had received.
"The results that we have received from our observers from the sites tells us, as we speak, we have 63 percent, Hamid Karzai has 31 percent," Sayed Aqa Fazil Sancharaki told AFP by telephone.
"This is not a final result. We are still receiving more results from our people on the ground. We might be done by tomorrow," he added.
Before Thursday's election, observers said an energetic campaign by ex-foreign minister Abdullah, who has a northern powerbase, boosted the chance of a run-off, which would take place in around six weeks' time.
Pre-election opinion polls put Abdullah on track for around 26 percent of the vote.
- AFP/ir
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