Afghanistan’s long road to a democratic form of government may have hit its first roadblock as both presidential candidates from the country’s recent presidential election which took place in April 2014 have refused to concede as both candidates have accused the other of vote rigging and election fraud. The accusation of voter fraud started immediately after the runoff counting began in June when Mr. Abdullah one of the candidates for President claimed that he had won a majority of the votes.

“Karzai is quite happy everything is tied up.” “They have engineered it in a way that it goes far beyond the normal. Its industrial scale fraud,” an anonymous official within the Abdullah campaign said. The first phase of the election ended in May when the two candidates, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani accepted the results eliminating the other nine major Presidential election candidates.

In an attempt to help quell the discontent between the two campaigns, the United Nations has sent officials to help monitor the recount and has also threatened to aid to the country if the officials are intimidated in any way by either campaign. “Intimidation against #UN are unacceptable”, a tweet read by the United Nation’s official twitter page.

The United Nations sponsored voting audit was completed on Sunday September 14th, but the results will not be available until next week. “We want to clarify that we are not pro- crises”, Juma Khan Hamdard who is a supporter of Ashraf Ghani. “But if some people intend not to accept the final results and attempt to push Afghanistan toward crises, we are ready to defend our votes at any costs.”

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However in a sign that the crises may be deepening negotiations between the two presidential candidates have reportedly stalled over reports that the two presidential camps have disagreements over how the results are released in the coming week.

“We were asked to agree on an outcome of the results by a close margin.” “But we did not accept it. We want the election bodies to announce the genuine result of the election,” a statement read by Ghani spokesman Tahir Zahir.

“Afghanistan must not be a ground for competition between countries. It is therefore important that the U.S should seek an environment of common understanding with other countries,” President Karzai said in a statement made on Wednesday.