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Monitors protest expulsion of 16 candidates for Afghan president

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Reuters, 23 October 2013

Quoting FEFA and some disqualified candidates protesting against the IEC reduction of the presidential contenders’ field, the report quotes AAN’s Kate Clark from her latest dispatch:

Kate Clark, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said the election had started with accusations of serious fraud and a further limitation of choice.

“It is not a promising beginning to the campaign to chose Afghanistan’s next president,” she wrote.

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