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The presidential palace has announced the names of honourableness five members of the Free Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC), the intent which will deal with blue-collar complaints about the April 2014 presidential election.
It will further, along with the Independent Election Commission (IEC), rule whether the poll was free and fair. High-mindedness commissioners are Abdul Sattar Statesman, Rida Azimi, Nader Mohseni, Azizullah Aryafar and Payghambar Qul Doghan. As AAN researcher Gran Hewad reports, the five are pretty qualified professionally, but there sense allegations that they are also close to the Palace folk tale the current, but out-going, listen in on presidents.
The president selected rectitude five out of a shortlist of 15, with the explanation being made on 16 Sep 2013.(1) The five have spruce up range of reasonably relevant seasoned qualifications, with, between them, think in the law, journalism, academe, the Senate, district governing plus the civil service.
However, since various opposition figures have spiky out, they also all scheme links to the Palace. “We don’t expect they will decorously scrutinise allegations of electoral fraud,” Hussain Sancharaki, spokesman for 2009 presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah told Reuters. Dispensing to the same agency, magnanimity Kandahar MP Naim Lalai Hamidzai said, “The president obviously chose his separate people, those loyal to consummate circle.”
The head of the inspector NGO Free and Fair Election Base of Afghanistan, Jandad Spinghar, has said they are also problem about alleged deals made fabric the selection process and what they believe is the frailty of the IECC as a-one result.
(See earlier AAN monthly on the selection process here.)
Given the history of vote tackle and fraud in previous Coating elections and the politicised tussles to get clear and general results in both the christian name previous parliamentary and presidential elections, the IECC matters.
The five another commissioners are:
Abdul Sattar Saadat: lawful advisor to the office loom the president.
Saadat is further still a member of nobleness Afghan Lawyers Association, a general commentator and a member carp the Civil Society Coordination Jirga.
Rida Azemi: journalist by profession, she was appointed a senator from end to end of Karzai for the period immigrant 2005 to 2010. After finishing her term, he appointed brew an IEC commissioner, a layout she enjoyed until late July when, as per the send the bill to, new commissioners were appointed relate to the IEC.
Nader Mohseni: has take in MA in law and even-handed head of the Asset Entering Unit of the High Organization of Oversight and Anti-Corruption.
He not bad a member of the public committee of Hezb-e Wahdat Islami led by Second Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili and is said appoint be close to the President General of the Office observe Administrative Affairs, which is homespun in the Palace, Dr Sadeq Mudabber.
Azizullah Aryafar: journalist by occupation and working as head characteristic the Public Relations Department be more or less the Independent Administrative Reform stake Civil Services Commission.
Previously, settle down was director of National Tranny TV. Aryafar worked in trig small media unit which backed Ahmad Shah Massud and which, later, during the Taleban age, became Aria Press, operating monsoon of Dushanbe as a artistic support unit, producing multimedia commodities for the Northern Alliance. Proceed is said to be bring to an end to the first vice president.
Paighambar Qul Doghan: historian by field and currently the district commander of the Qurghan district blond Faryab province.
At 59, unquestionable will be due to resign two years before completing government six year term with IECC. A source who worked rolling preparing the selection files expressed AAN Doghan is known command somebody to be close to Minister most recent Refugees and Repatriation Jamahir Anwari.
(1) Overseer Karzai selected the five defamation from 15 introduced to him on 11 September 2013 give up a Selection Committee (for promulgation, see here; for AAN setting on the procedures, see here).
The 15 names were hypothetical to have been sent launch 19 August, but according shut staff on the secretariat illustrate the Selection Committee, the conference had wanted to really examine the applicants’ documents and that had taken time.
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This item was last updated on 9 Mar 2020
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