Parliamentary election in Afghanistan 2010

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The parliamentary elections in Afghanistan 2010 took place on September 18, 2010. The members of the Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, were elected. Around 2,500 candidates, including more than 400 women, competed for the 249 seats. Only about 10 percent of the candidates belonged to a political party. The minimum age to participate in the election was 18 years. On October 20, the Independent Electoral Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) announced the preliminary results for all constituencies.

Schedule of choice

The official schedule of the election for the Wolesi Jirga was as follows, according to the Independent Electoral Commission of Afghanistan:

April 13th to 19th Registration of candidates
April 20th to May 4th Nomination of candidates
June 12th to August 12th Registration of voters
June 22 Publication of the final list of candidates
June 23 to September 16 Phase of the election campaign
September 18 election day
September 18 Counting the votes
9th October Announcement of partial results
30th of October Announcement of the final results of the Wolesi Jirga election

On July 7, the Electoral Complaints Commission announced that 31 people had been removed from the list of candidates for belonging to "illegal armed groups".

Apron

The parliamentary election was originally scheduled to take place on May 22, 2010. The Afghan Independent Electoral Commission, established in accordance with Article 156 of the Afghan Constitution to organize and monitor all elections in the country, postponed the vote to September 18, 2010; a postponement to a later date had even been suggested. It was already clear in advance that 938 of the 6,835 electoral offices in 25 of 34 provinces (about 14% of all electoral offices) had to remain closed due to the security situation. The Taliban threatened everyone in the election with death. The candidates were also threatened with kidnapping, torture and death by the Taliban, which is why they were protected by the ISAF . Even so, several candidates were killed before the election. There were fears of election fraud as in the 2009 presidential election .

execution

The Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) reported extensive problems. Election observers from the foundation reported irregularities from 389 election offices. It was reported that ballot papers were missing and polling offices closed too early. The turnout depended on the security situation and varied greatly from place to place.

Security situation

There were six explosions in Kandahar . The ISAF said that there were 485 violent incidents during the vote. 22 people were killed, including seven civilians, eleven Afghan security forces and four NATO soldiers.

According to official information, there were rocket attacks on polling stations in Kabul and the cities of Ghazni , Gardez and Jalalabad in the east, Kandahar and the province of Nimrus in the southwest. In the office in SURCH Rud in the province of Nangarhar armed Taliban prevented the election.

Work-up

On October 10, 2010, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) announced that 175 candidates, 25 of whom were candidates for re-election, were suspected of being electoral fraud. The authority had received a total of 4,100 complaints about the election process. On October 20, the chairman of the ECC, Fazel Ahmad Manawi , stated that there were 1.3 million invalid votes. 2,500 of the 18,000 polling stations were not counted.

On December 27, 2010, Hamid Karzai issued a decree establishing a special tribunal to investigate all complaints about the election. On the same day he announced that he would swear in parliament on January 20, 2011 as planned.

Bottom line

The official election result for Afghanistan, with the exception of Ghazni Province , was published on November 24, 2010. The eleven seats in Ghazni were still controversial, as mainly members of the Hazara minority voted in the province , but the majority of the Pashtuns did not vote . As a result, President Hamid Karzai sued the Afghan Independent Electoral Commission and the results for that province were withheld.

The interpretation of the results is difficult because the candidates do not indicate party affiliation. Only 90 members of the old parliament from 2005 were re-elected. According to Abdullah Abdullah , 90 candidates came to parliament to support him. Of the over 400 female candidates, 69 were elected to parliament.

On December 1, the electoral commission also announced the results of Ghazni Province, which had been withheld until then. Accordingly, the eleven seats went to members of the Hasara ethnic minority.

Opening of Parliament

On January 20, 2011, President Karzai announced that the opening of parliament, which was scheduled for January 23, would be postponed for a month. The reason for this was a request by the special tribunal, which was convened by Karzai on December 27th. Due to massive criticism from MPs, the USA and the UN, Karzai finally gave in. On the night of January 25-26, around 180 to 200 defeated candidates occupied the presidential palace to protest Karzai's decision to convene the first session of parliament the next day.

The Wolesi Jirga finally held its first post-election meeting on January 26th.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Spiegel: Afghanistan trembles before the impossible elections
  2. ↑ Afghanistan "These elections will be difficult"
  3. ↑ a b The daily newspaper of July 28, 2010: Election in Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai's puppet theater
  4. ↑ Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan: Voter Registration ( Memento from August 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan: Afghanistan 2010 Wolesi Jirga Election Preliminary Results
  6. ↑ Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan: Key Dates ( Memento from October 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Names of 31 people will be removed from the final list of candidates to the Wolesi Jirga elections  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 129 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ecc.org.af  
  8. ^ "Afghans Announce Spring Election"
  9. ^ "Afghan MPs snub Karzai's new cabinet - President dealt political body blow ahead of key international conference in London later this month"
  10. ^ "Afghanistan Postpones Parliamentary Election by 4 Months"
  11. ^ "Why Afghanistan's September elections ought to be postponed"
  12. ↑ "NATO denies Taliban ascendant as Afghan toll mounts"
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  14. ↑ ISAF has to protect female candidates for parliamentary elections , katja-keul.de of September 2, 2010
  15. ↑ Afghanistan: Again candidate killed before parliamentary election ( Memento from September 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung from August 29
  16. ↑ a b Frankfurter Rundschau: Elections with mortal danger
  17. ↑ Almost a quarter of the votes in parliamentary elections are invalid. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 20, 2010, accessed October 21, 2010 .
  18. ^ FAZ: Several deaths in attacks on polling stations
  19. ↑ 170 candidates suspected of electoral fraud. In: ORF . October 10, 2010, accessed October 10, 2010 .
  20. ↑ 20 percent of the votes are invalid. In: ORF. October 20, 2010, accessed October 20, 2010 .
  21. ↑ Karzai sets up a special tribunal for election complaints. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 27, 2010, accessed December 28, 2010 .
  22. ↑ a b Thomas Ruttig: Rifles and money rule. In: the daily newspaper. November 24, 2010. Retrieved November 25, 2010 .
  23. ↑ a b http://www.fr-online.de/politik/abdullah-jubelt,1472596,4865310.html ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  24. ↑ Complete election results in Afghanistan. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 1, 2010, accessed December 3, 2010 .
  25. ↑ Thomas Ruttig: Karzai outwits parliamentarians. In: the daily newspaper. January 20, 2011, accessed January 24, 2011 .
  26. ↑ a b c Losers occupy the presidential palace. In: the daily newspaper. January 26, 2011, accessed January 27, 2011 .