Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, is to face a run-off vote against his main election rival following a ruling by the country's election commission. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on Tuesday that the run-off will be held on November 7. The IEC's ruling comes a day after the UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), investigating allegations of fraud in the election, demanded thousands of ballots be disallowed. The move took Karzai's share of the vote below the crucial 50 per cent mark. Noor Mohammad Noor, a spokesman for the IEC, announced: "It will go to a second round on November 7. The reason was Karzai's vote was 49.67 and could not reach above 50 per cent."
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