Marches began in various parts of Kabul on Friday and are planned to converge in the downtown area near the Presidential Palace.

Abdullah Abdullah’s election team in a press conference last night called for a protest against “fraud in the election.”

The presidential election was held on September 28, but a winner of the preliminary round has not been announced because some of the votes are considered invalid by many candidates’ teams.

The protestors in Kabul were chanting anti-fraud slogans and calling for their demands to be addressed, which includes the removal of “fraudulent votes” from the total number of votes.

The routes to downtown Kabul were closed by the government. This created problems for residents who were interviewed by TOLOnews:

“We are here to fight against the ‘fraud’ team,” said one protestor who was a driver.

“We are here to say no to fraud. Another president should come to power but not through fraud,” another protestor said.

The marching protestors chanted that they will not accept the vote recount process as they consider some of the votes in the final tally for recount to be fraudulent.

The Stability and Convergence campaign team led by Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah said on Thursday that they will gather in Pashtunistan Square, in front of the Presidential Palace, on Friday.

But the Kabul Garrison announced in a statement that the protestors should gather in Chaman-e-Hozoori, for security reasons.