The announcement came on 28 September from Peter Erben of the UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB).
"We will have a target date for the completion of the count of around 4 October," Erben said. "Given that the two first days of the count -- [September] 20th and 21st -- were a very slow start, we are about halfway in the counting process. So, the overall picture is that we are approximately on target at this moment. However, we do have a number of our locations that are behind. This will be [corrected] by real location of staff and optimization of methodology with which we count."
Erben said that once the count is finished in each province, there will be a period for reviewing complaints before official results are announced on 22 October.
Also on 28 September, a suicide bomb attack at a military training center in Kabul has killed at least nine people.
A purported Taliban spokesman said the ousted hard-line Islamic regime was responsible for what was one of the bloodiest suicide attacks since the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban in late 2001.
(Reuters/AFP/AP/dpa)
For RFE/RL's full coverage of the legislative elections in Afghanistan, see "Afghanistan Votes"
"We will have a target date for the completion of the count of around 4 October," Erben said. "Given that the two first days of the count -- [September] 20th and 21st -- were a very slow start, we are about halfway in the counting process. So, the overall picture is that we are approximately on target at this moment. However, we do have a number of our locations that are behind. This will be [corrected] by real location of staff and optimization of methodology with which we count."
Erben said that once the count is finished in each province, there will be a period for reviewing complaints before official results are announced on 22 October.
Also on 28 September, a suicide bomb attack at a military training center in Kabul has killed at least nine people.
A purported Taliban spokesman said the ousted hard-line Islamic regime was responsible for what was one of the bloodiest suicide attacks since the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban in late 2001.
(Reuters/AFP/AP/dpa)
For RFE/RL's full coverage of the legislative elections in Afghanistan, see "Afghanistan Votes"
