The tribunal threw out results for 62 of the 249 seats in the Afghan parliament on Thursday,
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Special Court Judge Sidiqullah Haqiq said any candidates who won their seats through electoral fraud “must be prosecuted.” The court said Afghanistan's election commission should disqualify any lawmakers whose elections were determined by the court to be illegal,
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Armed soldiers stood behind the court's judges as new results were announced,
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International observers consider the recount illegal, as did one Kabul lawmaker whose vote share actually increased in the recount. One Western diplomat suggested the possibility of constitutional turmoil as the court announced it was vacating dozens of results.
In one district,
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A special court in Afghanistan has overturned a quarter of last year's parliamentary election results in a vote fraud investigation,
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