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| Afghan poll body sacks 3,000 over fraud ahead of run-off |
| 2014-05-25 |
| [The Peninsula] Afghanistan's election commission has said it had fired more than 3,000 staff accused of fraud in the first round of the presidential election, as it sought to quell fears that it might fail to deliver a legitimate outcome. Afghans voted on April 5 in the first round to pick a successor to 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... , barred by the constitution from standing for a third term after more than a decade in power. The winner will take charge at a crucial time, with most foreign troops due to withdraw by the end of the year, the Taliban insurgency still raging and a pact with Washington permitting some US forces to stay hanging in the balance. Spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor said Independent Election Commission had blacklisted the fired staff, so that they would not be hired in the second round. "Some fraud was reported from those polling stations," he added, referring to the sites where the fired staff had worked. Independent election monitors say many complaints were ignored in the effort to meet deadlines and the decisionmaking process lacked transparency. |
| Posted by:Fred |