KABUL as “a tactical move” and said such decisions could plunge the country into a new crisis. The Wolesi Jirga has recently rejected a number of presidential decrees about electoral reforms including one amending the law on responsibilities and composition…
Electoral Reform Commission (ERC) members on Monday said their evaluation study on changing electoral system, shrinking constituencies and defining role of the transparency committee has been somehow finalised. At the end of August the Electoral Reforms Commission (ERC)…
President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday decreed seven suggestions of the Electoral Reform Commission and called for urgent measures to provide legal cover for the proposals approved. Following month-long discussions with different segments of society, the electoral reform commission…
Some political analysts view a political parties-based election system as a positive move that is difficult to implement, but others support the proportional representation regime. Changing the current election system to a party-based regime with the creation of…
The residents of northern Balkh province on Monday said transparent future elections needed drastic reforms in the electoral bodies. They were speaking at a consultative gathering with officials of the Electoral Reform Commission in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital.…
Electoral Reform Commission officials said on Monday that consultations at provincial and regional levels on the electoral system’s technical and legal aspects had started producing good results. Shah Mahmood Miakhel, a member of the commission, told a gathering…
In a bid to ensure transparency in the election, the electoral reform commission on Thursday said the government was committed to bring drastic reforms to the election system to ensure free, fair and transparent ballot, the commission chief…
