KABUL -- or lower house of the parliament -- on Monday rejected President Ashraf Ghani’s legislative decree on election reforms.
Under Article 79 of the Constitution, the president can issue legislative decrees on all issues barring budget and financial matterswhen the parliament is on recess.
But the decrees need to be approved by the parliament within 30 days of returning from vacation. Election reforms are a key point of the agreement on the national unity government.
President Ghani, in July2015, when the National Assembly was . . .
