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Did Hamid Karzai win Afghanistan's first democratic presidental election?

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In 2002 a traditional Afghan council [loya jirga] convened by the former king elected Karzai president. He won (2004) Afghanistan's first democratic presidental election, but his victory was marred by voting irregularities.

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