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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9030

20 September 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/afghanistan
EU welcomes “historic elections” - Turn-out only 50%

Brussels, 19/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Despite a few incidents during the election campaign and threats from Taliban that they would upset the elections, Afghanistan was able, on Sunday, to hold its legislative elections welcomed as an historic stage towards democracy. On the basis of the first results from a little over one third of the ballot offices, Peter Erben, the director of the Afghan electoral committee, nonetheless said on Monday during a press conference that, with the first...

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