KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's next president was meant to be inaugurated on Monday but the deadline has been pushed back to September 2 as rival candidates remain deadlocked over who won an election meant to mark the troubled country's first democratic transfer of power.
Rivals Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, as part of a U.S.-brokered deal, must form a government of national unity and cooperate on an audit of all eight million votes that were cast to eliminate concerns over widespread electoral fraud.
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