Afghanistan Gets New President After Power-Sharing Deal, But Vote Total Kept Hidden — mashable.com

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan's election commission named a new president on Sunday, only hours after the two leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country's new chief executive. The commission named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the winner and next president, and noted that Abdullah Abdullah will be the next chief executive. But it pointedly did not release final vote totals amid suggestions that doing so could inflame tensions.

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