2004 presidential election in Afghanistan
The presidential election in Afghanistan 2004 was the first presidential election in Afghanistan after the overthrow of the Taliban regime in October 2001. Hamid Karzai was elected on October 9, 2004 with 55.4%. Some other candidates were Junus Ghanuni with 16.3%, Hajji Mohammed Mohaqiq with 11.7% and Abdul Raschid Dostum with 10.0%.
Election preparations
In the Petersberg Agreement of December 2001, a step-by-step plan was agreed which, among other things, provided for the formation of an interim administration and, as a final step, democratic elections.
In early 2003, the United Nations Assistance Mission (UNAMA) began preparations to register Afghan voters.
On 26 July 2003 announced interim President Hamid Karzai issued a decree to form a group consisting of six members Electoral Commission (English: Interim Afghan Electoral Commission) Their job was with the transitional government and the lower other things support the United Nations Mission work (UNAMA).
The six members of the election commission and five UNAMA election experts together formed the Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB). On February 18, 2004 two additional, but not entitled to vote, members were accepted, the director of the Electoral Secretariat and the UNAMA Electoral Advicer.
On May 27, 2004, the transitional government passed an electoral law.
Originally the election should have taken place in June 2004, more precisely on July 5, 2004, but it was postponed first to September and then to October. The reasons for this were the slow registration of voters and the lack of money for it. Occasionally it was read that the date should definitely be before the presidential election in the United States on November 2, 2004.
In the summer of 2004, voter registration began.
On August 8, 2004, the JEMB created a media commission consisting of four Afghan and two international members and a small staff. Your job was to watch the media coverage.
security questions
There were repeated fatal attacks against Afghans who carried voting papers, for example, and Afghans preparing for the election. The Taliban have repeatedly spoken out against women being allowed to vote and hold public office.
Web links
- Idea.int: Reginald Austin, Afghanistan: An Electoral Management Body Evolves (PDF; 76 kB)
- Electoral Act of May 27, 2005 (PDF; 99 kB)
- Wissenschaft-und-frieden.de: Matin Baraki, The programmed victory - Presidential election in Afghanistan, 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guardian: Afghan elections put back to September 29, 2004
- ↑ IEC.org: Media Commission ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Guardian: Taliban murders voters to the election, June 28, 2004
- ↑ a b Guardian: We will have our say, July 16, 2004
