apologize for any offense caused by his absence over the past week or writes for jim maynard in sydney thank you so much. now the afghan president ashraf ghani appears to be heading for a 2nd term according to preliminary results wrist released a short while ago he won september's election with just over half the vote in outspent had been delayed because of irregularities and the recount turnout was under 30 percent and a 3rd of the votes cast related deemed invalid gunnies nearest rival abdullah abdullah who currently shares power with him as the country's chief executive says the electoral commission failed to address fraud and that he does not accept these results. and for more let's bring in journalist journalist allie letty field who joins us on the phone from the afghan city of jalalabad alley thanks for being with us what's the reaction to the preliminary election results what are people saying about these. so the reaction it's essential along party lines obviously people who are supporting the president are very happy earlier in the city of jalalabad we saw people gathering pla