[Tolo News] Elections Special Tribunal on Thursday announced the results of its investigation into parliamentary elections and overturned nearly 25 percent of last year's election results.The tribunal, formed by President Karzai to investigate fraud allegations in last year's parliamentary elections, announced 62 protesting candidates as winners of the elections.
Chief of the Special Tribunal, Sediqullah Haqiq, called for prosecution of fraud organisers in last year's elections.
Sediqullah Haqiq said: "In light of our investigations and constitution one by one they should be prosecuted because of shortcomings now and then."
Mr Haqiq strongly criticised the counting processes of electoral commissions.
Parwan, Kapisa, Uruzgan, Nimroz, Panjsher and Bamyan are the provinces where slight changes have taken place after the recounting process.
In response to Special Tribunal's announcement of the results, the Afghan House of Representatives disqualified the Afghan Attorney General.
Parliamentarians believe that Afghan Attorney General is behind all the parliamentary vote mess.
Once again politicians called the work of the special tribunal unconstitutional and urged the international community and the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
to step in for a final decision.
But Deputy Attorney General Rahmatullah Nazari see the decision of parliamentarians to disqualify the Attorney General against constitution and internal regulations of the house.
"Articles 91 and 92 in the constitution clearly state that summon should take place based on well-founded reasons. There is no acceptable reason,"Mr Nazari said.
Parliamentarians warned of taking to streets and holding demonstrations nationwide if even one member of the house is thrown out.
Key opposition leader Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
warned that Karzai's system will collapse if the government keeps trampling Afghan laws.
President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
is making efforts to undermine the credibility of the constitution so that he could run for presidential elections for a third time, Dr Abdullah said.
"There is no doubt that there were problems in parliamentary elections, but it was not to the extent to break laws for it," he said. "From the very beginning formation of the special tribunal was illegal and now its decision is also illegal."
Dr Abdullah said the investigation of special tribunal into last year's election is unconstitutional.