Ashraf Ghani secures second term as Afghanistan president

Ashraf Ghani has secured a second term as president of Afghanistan, according to final results of the 28 September 2019 poll released on Tuesday, 18 February, by the country's election commission.

“The election commission... declares Mr Ashraf Ghani, who has won 50.64 percent of the votes, as the president of Afghanistan,” election commission chief Hawa Alam Nuristani told a press conference in Kabul.