Abdullah leads partial results of Afghan vote

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Channel: Al Jazeera English · 2014 · News & Politics

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In Afghanistan, preliminary results from the presidential election show former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah is in the lead.  Results from ten percent of polling stations show he's won nearly 42 percent of the vote.  There could be a run-off election between the two leading candidates if neither of them gains more than 50 percent of the vote when the final results are in towards the end of May.   Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Kabul.

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