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Parent topics

• President of Afghanistan [r]: Currently elected head of state and head of government of Afghanistan ^[e]

Subtopics

• 2009 Afghanistan presidential election, campaign [r]: Events of the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election leading up to the election on August 20 ^[e]

Candidates

• Hamid Karzai [r]: President of Afghanistan, who took interim office in 2002, was reelected to a full five-year term in 2004, and gained another term after a disputed election in August 2009; Pashtun of the Durrani tribe ^[e]
• Abdullah Abdullah [r]: Candidate in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election; former Foreign Minister; ophthalmologist; half Tajik and half Pashtun but tends to be regarded as Tajik ^[e]
• Ashram Ghani [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ramazan Bashardost [r]: Independent member of the parliament of Afghanistan and candidate in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election; was Planning Minister in 2004; French-educated in law, diplomacy and political science; ethnically Hazara but running as an Afghan populist ^[e]
• Shahla Ata [r]: Add brief definition or description

Election officials and monitors

• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan [r]: Current United Nations mission headquarters in Afghanistan, brought in as a result of the Afghanistan War (2001-) ^[e]
• Kai Eide [r]: Norwegian diplomat; former UN Special Envoy to Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA); previously represented Norway in NATO, OSCE, and CSCE ^[e]
• Peter Galbraith [r]: United Nations and United States of America diplomat, who has recently been involved in charges and countercharges about fraud in the 2009 Afghanistan presidential election ^[e]