Independent Electoral Commission of Afghanistan
The Independent Electoral Commission ( Pashtun د افغانستان د ټاکنو خپلواک کمیسیون, Persian کمیسیون مستقل انتخابات افغانستان, English Independent Electioon Commission , IEC for short ) was the electoral commission of Afghanistan . Their job was to organize and conduct elections.
Shortly before the parliamentary elections in 2010, the IEC was filled at the instigation of Hamid Karzai . After a new electoral law was passed, the IEC was staffed in November 2016.
On September 18, 2013, the head of the Kunduz Province Commission, Amanullah Aman, was shot dead from a motorcycle by unknown persons. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
A good four months after the Taliban came to power , the election commission, like the election complaints commission, was declared dissolved at the end of December 2021. According to the government spokesman, they no longer see a need for both bodies.
Web links
- Website of the Independent Electoral Commission (English / Pashtun / Persian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1.3 million invalid votes. In: the daily newspaper . October 20, 2010. Retrieved October 22, 2010 .
- ↑ Jochen Buchsteiner: Karzai's court. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 10, 2011, accessed July 11, 2011 .
- ^ Ali Yawar Adili, Martine van Bijlert: Afghanistan's Incomplete New Electoral Law: Changes and controversies. reliefweb.int, January 22, 2017, accessed October 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Taliban shot head of Afghan electoral commission ( memento from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Taliban dissolve independent electoral commission in Afghanistan. Der Standard , December 26, 2021, accessed the same day.