Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 5 April 2014. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai was not eligible to run due to term limits. The registration period for presidential nominations was open from 16 September 2013 until 6 October 2013. A total of 27 candidates were confirmed to be running for office. However, on 22 October Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission disqualified 16 of the candidates, leaving only 11 in the race. By April 2014 three candidates gave up the race and decided to support some of the eight remaining candidates. Opinion polls show Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani as the front-runners.The election will be the first time in Afghanistan's history that power will be democratically transferred.. }
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- Afghan_presidential_election,_2014 abstract "Presidential elections were held in Afghanistan on 5 April 2014. Incumbent President Hamid Karzai was not eligible to run due to term limits. The registration period for presidential nominations was open from 16 September 2013 until 6 October 2013. A total of 27 candidates were confirmed to be running for office. However, on 22 October Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission disqualified 16 of the candidates, leaving only 11 in the race. By April 2014 three candidates gave up the race and decided to support some of the eight remaining candidates. Opinion polls show Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani as the front-runners.The election will be the first time in Afghanistan's history that power will be democratically transferred.".