Finish the campaign with a massive rally Taliban opposition and called for a boycott

Kabul, 17 Aug 2009. - Thousands of Afghans marched to the stadium in Kabul to provide support for the main opposition candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, the last day of the presidential election campaign in Afghanistan, where Taliban reiterated their call to boycott.
The elections, in which the favorites the current president, Hamid Karzai, will be held on October 20 in an atmosphere of complete uncertainty about the threats of Taliban insurgents, that described as "propaganda" American in a statement posted on the Internet .
The Taliban have denied that any agreement reached to allow the process, the authorities had announced one in July in western Badghis-and said that "most of Afghanistan" is under its control, so "there is no possibility of holding elections" , said, "except in a few cities and provincial centers."
Despite the fundamentalist threat, thousands of people with hats and flags came today celestial city stadium to wrap Abdullah, a dentist and former foreign minister who polls show the main rival of Karzai.
The candidate himself came to the dais between shoved and dragged by a horde of followers that his private guard, a group of Tajik armed with "Kalashnikov" - barely able to contain, to the point that several people suffered bruises.
In the stadium, followers of Abdullah uttered shouts of support for their candidate, a former lieutenant of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance killed by fundamentalists in 2001 - whose photographs dominated the stage.
"Everyone wants change in Afghanistan and we are confident we will win," said Efe a spokesman for the campaign, while a white helicopter threw leaflets over the stadium to the delight of the audience with a message for change.
The last known survey published by the American Institute IRI, gives Abdullah 26 percent of the vote, behind the 44 percent awarded Karzai, a result that would the two candidates to a second round.
"To help youth, you must all lean to the national development of Afghanistan. Help me to win and I will help you, "he desgañitaba the candidate before the microphone as the crowd chanted his name and called it" useless " Karzai.
According to experts, the vote of Abdullah, father and mother Pashtun Tajik proceed on all of the members of this last race, second in the country and mass today at the stadium in Kabul, the place used by the Taliban to execute inmates.
Presidential elections are marked precisely by the threat of boycott of the Taliban and their attempts to derail the process with actions, such as the attack on Saturday at the ISAF headquarters in Afghanistan, which resulted in seven deaths.
Although the Government has promised to mobilize all its resources to protect the elections, Afghan Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar, acknowledged Efe on Sunday that its forces will not be able to guarantee one hundred percent security.
In their race to proclaim the winner without a runoff-for what you need more than 50 percent of the votes, Karzai spent today to rest and his team announced the withdrawal of four candidates that they will support the president.
"We met with him and saw that is committed to democracy and development in Afghanistan," said Efe one of them, Dr. Nasin Anise, who denied having negotiated a position in a hypothetical future government of Karzai.
President, Pashtun, has joined so far supports a dozen candidates and commitment to add votes of the various Afghan ethnic groups, although their opponents accuse him of having given to this to regional warlords and former "warlords".
"Seeing the kind of national political participation and we have created and the fact that a dozen candidates support us, things have worked well," said Efe campaign spokesman for Karzai, Waheed Omar.
Abdullah today visited several provinces in the afternoon, as did the candidate Ashraf Ghani and Ramazan Bashardost, the latter an eccentric candidate who has run his business from a tent in Kabul and has moved it to the third position estimate to vote.

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