Who won the election?

At the beginning the public thought they won the election but now they are losing hope.
The 2014 election in Afghanistan, which saw huge numbers of voters coming out to exercise their franchise

At the beginning the public thought they won the election but now they are losing hope.
The 2014 election in Afghanistan, which saw huge numbers of voters coming out to exercise their franchise, shocked the world and showed that the country did not want fighting and insurgency any more. More than anyone else the voters showed they knew the value of their lives, and wanted to make their own fate by themselves.
In two rounds of elections – the runoff was in June – the people proved they were the winners and not the candidates.
In the first round of elections (April 5), in which eleven candidates were nominated to be president, about seven million people turned out to vote. There was a satisfying turnout of women voters.
In the second round of election it was expected there would be fewer voters. But the second round shocked everyone even more. More than eight million participated in the election, and the presence of women voters was more than in the first round.
In this election twelve people lost their fingers. It is even more interesting that one person hid his sorrow for the sake of elections, according to a media report. A person in a remote district of Khost province, whose daughter passed away the night before the election, hid the news from villagers because he did not want his daughter’s funeral to stop people from voting.
All this is evidence, if evidence is needed, about the success of people in these elections. The real winner of the 2014 polls was the public.
However all that has happened after the election, until now, has changed the situation. Everything you read about the election and ballot counting and re-counting have made Afghan citizens despondent. They have been forced to consider that democracy is only a word. Afghans are not winners, but it is the two candidates who are winners.
Because over the intervening months, the people have been plunged in a huge economic crisis – a crisis that has weakened their tolerance.
Do the candidates know what this feeling of hopeless means? Do they know that people may not be able to go and vote with confidence in another election?