阿富汗当选总统举行首次记者会

Afghan president-elect Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai is to hold his first news conference Monday, after being declared winner of the country's long-disputed presidential election.

Mr Ghani is to be sworn-in on September 29 at the Presidential Palace in Kabul.

His election rival, Abdullah Abdullah, becomes chief executive of the country under a power-sharing agreement the candidates signed Sunday.

The election commission will not officially release vote tallies from the audit of the run-off election held in June.  This was one of Mr. Abdullah's final demands in negotiations with Mr. Ghani.

Leaked results, however, show Mr. Ghani took about 55 percent and Mr. Abdullah roughly 45 percent of the vote.