Afghan Pres. Says He Won't Run Again: “The International Community Did Not Stand With Me”...

Fortune Eric Ellis August 8, 2006 at 09:53 PM
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has strongly suggested he will serve just one term as Afghan leader and not contest his country's next presidential election scheduled for 2009. In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the 49-year-old Karzai said, "I don't think it is good to be running all the time. Let other people get a chance to run."

Karzai, who became his country's first democratically elected president in December 2004, added: "I want to leave a good legacy for Afghanistan. I want to have this country stable and constitutionally strong. I want to have this country left with a stable environment of alternative leaders."

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