Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai speaks during a news conference in Kabul, April 27, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
KABUL (Reuters) - The two leading candidates in the race to become Afghanistan's next president rallied supporters and urged election officials to come clean on fraud on Sunday as the country readied for an expected gruelling run-off in June.
Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, both ministers in the transition government after U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban from power in 2001, shared over three-quarters of the nearly 7 million votes cast, but neither clinched an absolute majority.
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