Tag Archives: Elections 2019

Afghanistan’s Chief Executive and Presidential Candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Wednesday questioned the neutrality of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) by saying that the Election Commission is acting based on the orders of a specific electoral team. “The neutrality of IEC is in question and the result of its work is …

The Stability and Partnership campaign led by Abdullah Abdullah warned on Tuesday that it will launch new wave of protests if the Independent Election Commission (IEC) did not invalidate the 300,000 controversial votes by end of this week. “If the Commission failed to invalidate the fraudulent votes and announce the …

The Council of Presidential Candidates (COPC) on Monday said that it will not accept the result of Afghan Presidential Elections if it comes out as a result of fraud and force. Shahab Hakimi, a presidential candidate told Ariana News that using Afghan security forces in electoral processes is against the …

Former Jihadi Leader and Presidential Candidate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Tuesday warned that no one is allowed to announce the preliminary results of election until all non-biometric votes are invalidated. Speaking at a press conference in Kabul, Hekmatyar emphasized that 1.2 million fraudulent votes and 300,000 quarantined votes must be excluded …

Afghanistan’s Chief Executive and presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah warned on Sunday that his electoral campaign will use every legal means to stop the resumption of partial vote recount. Abdullah accused the Independent Election Commission (IEC) for being biased toward his rival, the State Builder team led by President Ashraf Ghani. …

Maulana Abdullah, a Commissioner of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Saturday claimed that the two non-voting international members of the Commission are concealing electoral violations that are happening at the IEC. According to Commissioner Abdullah, the IEC non-voting members and UNAMA technical advisors, who are visiting the Election Commission, …

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) decided to stop the partial recount process early on Wednesday afternoon. In a statement, IEC said, assessing the complaints of presidential candidates, political parties and civil society organizations were the reason behind the decision. This comes after several presidential candidates boycotted the process. Supporters of …

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has formally complaint to the leadership of Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) over Commissioner Maulana Abdullah’s threatening behavior towards the Data Manager of the IEC National Tally Center. In a letter to Hawa Alam Nuristani, Chairperson of the IEC, UN says Maulana …

GIRoA Chief Executive and Presidential Candidate Abdullah Abdullah called on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to stop the vote recounting process until their concerns about controversial votes are addressed. Speaking to his supporters in Kabul, Abdullah warned of an electoral crisis and said the State-Builder team led by President Ashraf …

On Saturday, Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC), officially launched the recounting process for votes that have been deemed ‘suspicious.’ However, electoral campaigns of Abdullah Abdullah, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Rahmatullah Nabil have boycotted the recount process. IEC Chief Secretariat, Habib-Ul-Rahman Nang, told Ariana News that the commission is fully prepared to …

The Stability and Partnership campaign led by Abdullah Abdullah has called on the Independent Electoral Commissions to invalidate 300,000 fraudulent biometric votes which are still in the server. Noor Rahman Akhlaqi, a senior member of Abdullah’s electoral team told a press conference on Monday that the suspicious votes include cases …

The German company Dermalog has delivered a part of data cleaned up of duplicate votes, officials said. Officials in the Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Thursday that 47,000 cases of underage, duplicate photos and photos taken of photos have been detected by Dermalog server and shared with the IEC. …

The deduplication process of votes in the Independent Election Commission’s main data center will be finished by German Dermalog Company late on Tuesday, an official said. Once the deduplication ended, the IEC will recount votes of those polling stations where paper result-sheets are different from biometric data. The recount process …

A number of Afghan senators on Tuesday called on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the election result as soon as possible. Senators also called on frontrunner candidates to avoid taking this national process toward a political deadlock. Abdul Latif Nahzatyar, a member of senate said postponement of election …

Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah emphasized on Monday that every opportunity for peace must be embraced. However, he said more attention is needed to have a transparent result of the presidential elections. Speaking at the weekly council of ministers, Abdullah emphasized that the result of a transparent election can save democracy …

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) officially announced November 14 as the new date for preliminary results. The Chairperson of IEC Hawa Alam Nuristani made the announcement during a press conference on Sunday. The German company Dermalog was expected to deliver data cleaned up of duplicate votes last night, but asked …

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday that all data from biometric devices have been transferred to its main server. According to an official, the initial biometrically verified voter turnout is 1.93 million at the moment. The next step is to weed out invalid biometric data including duplicate finger-prints, …

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) leadership along with agents of electoral candidates visited the commission digital data center on Tuesday. Authorities confirmed that police Special Forces have broken the seal to only lobby after receiving approval from a security adviser of the commission. However, officials said that no one has …

A number of presidential candidates on Tuesday expressed their concerns regarding the vote counting process and the recent chaos in the Independent Election Commission’s (IEC) main office. Presidential candidate Shahab Hakimi said that tensions between Ghani’s State-Builder campaign and Abdullah’s Stability and Partnership team have created obstacles in way of …

The Stability and Partnership electoral team led by Abdullah Abdullah accused police Special Forces of breaking the locks on election commission digital data center last night. Speaking at a press conference, Ali Ahmad Osmani, the head of Abdullah’s campaign claimed that members of rival team have also accompanied the security …