Süddeutsche Zeitung, 22 Dezember 2019
The leading German, Munich-based daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig as saying
“Die Legitimität des künftigen Präsidenten wird auf schwachen Füßen stehen”, sagte Thomas Ruttig, der Co-Chef des unabhängigen Kabuler “Afghanistan Analysts Network”.
(The legitimacy of the future [Afghan] president will stand on a weak basis.)
The daily, however, did not add my ‘but’: that these were the cleanest elections so far after 2001 in Afghanistan, and the turnout more realistic than the inflated, fraud-infested figures of 2004, 2009 and 2014.
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This article was last updated on 9 Mar 2020
