Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Ariana TV on 4 June [Presenter] Some MPs believe the delay in implementation of population census have political motives and that a transparent election is only possible with accurate population census.

IT WAS 34 days overdue - but yesterday election officials in Zimbabwe unveiled the result of the presidential ballot, and were immediately accused of a fix.

Home News IN BRIEF --The scandal over donors led to a collapse in personal donations to Labour, figures published by the Electoral Commission show. The party raised only 581,391 in the last quarter of 2007 from individual donors compared to 2.8m in the previous quarter.

Incumbent President Kibaki was declared winner of Kenya's presidential election Sunday, despite challenger Raila Odinga's claims of victory. The Electoral Commission officially declared Kibaki winner three days after the poll plagued by claims of corruption and irregularities, the BBC reported.

By MICHAEL SETTLE CHIEF UK POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE SNP's Holyrood victory was bankrolled by its largest campaign fund made up of public money and private cash donations totalling just in over GBP1m, the Electoral Commission revealed yesterday.