The campaign team of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday released audio recordings which they said contained evidence of fraud against a senior member of the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC).
The accusation came as hundreds of Abdullah’s supporters held protests against alleged irregularities for a second day across Kabul, as a political stalemate deepens in the country.
The protesters chanted “long live Abdullah” and called for the death of Afghanistan’s electoral commission chief, who is handling the fraud allegations.
Abdullah won the first round of the poll to succeed President Hamid Karzai, gaining 45 per cent of the vote while his nearest rival Ashraf Ghani won 31.6 per cent. But he has boycotted the vote count after the second round run-off, accusing Karzai of interfering to favour his rival.