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胡宇豪 ， 031240118 , 3 ， 周一 1/2 ---from Newsweek of April 28th Afghans Brace for Another Round of Voting By?Reuters Filed:?4/26/14 at 5:11 PM Filed Under:?World,?Afghanistan,?Democracy (Reuters) - Afghanistans presidential election is set to go to a second round between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani after no candidate won an absolute majority, preliminary results showed on Saturday. Abdullah finished top with 44.9 percent, followed by Ghani with 31.5 percent, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said. Zalmay Rassoul, also a former foreign minister, was a distant third with 11.5 percent. This is a preliminary outcome and will now go to the Independent Election Complaints Commission and they will work on this. As soon as they share their findings with us we will also announce it, IEC chairman Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani told reporters. The final result is due to be announced on May 14. In the meantime, authorities will investigate allegations of fraud involving up to half a million ballots. It is unlikely, however, that Abdullah could be pushed to the 50 percent-plus-one required for victory if the suspect votes are cleared and included in the count. We have a tentative schedule of June 7 to start the second round, Nuristani said. ①The April 5 election was widely seen as a success. Around 7 million of an eligible 12 million voters braved the threat of Taliban attacks to cast ballots in what will be the first democratic transition of power in their countrys history.(普遍认为4月5日的选举是非常成功的。1200万合格的选民中大约有700万人的冒着塔利班袭击的威胁来投票,这将是他们国家历史上第一次权力向民主过渡。) President Hamid Karzai was constitutionally barred from standing for a third term. His successor will face a range of challenges, including leading the country to sovereignty after more than a decade of foreign military occupation that followed the U.S.-led invasion to rid Afghanistan?of the Taliban in 2001. ② Foreign combat troops are set to withdraw on December 31, leaving security