Afghan candidate's bicycle campaign

"Every morning Sangin Mohammed Rahmani says goodbye to his wife, gets on his bicycle and sets out alone on a bumpy, unpaved Kabul road that he hopes will lead him to the presidency.

Presidential candidate Sangin Mohammed Rahmani goes out campaigning on his bicycle.

"This is going to be my vehicle to success," he says, patting his bicycle, as he pushes it down a rutted, garbage-strewn street. "With my bicycle and my mobile phone, I can solve all the problems of the people."

In a crowded field of 41 Afghan men and women running for president in the August 20th elections, Rahmani stands out because of his one-man, bicycle-borne campaign to become commander-in-chief. His is an unusually humble strategy in a society exhausted by decades of civil war and warlord-ism.

'Only a person who is poor can understand the condition of the poor," Rahmani explains. "The only person who can solve the problems of this country is someone who has experienced the problems firsthand."

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