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Protesting Candidates

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Invalid Kabul, Takhar votes: Protesting candidates

KABUL candidates belonging to Kabul and Takhar province on Sunday demanded invalidation of votes cast in the two provinces and reelections. Forty protesting Wolesi Jirga candidates told a joint a press conference here that the October elections to the lower…

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IEC secretariat officials also complicit in fraud: Candidates

KABUL candidates from Kabul on Thursday renewed their call for invalidating all votes cast in the central province and asked the government to dismiss the election commission’s secretariat officials as well. Numbering around 30, the disgruntled candidates told a press…

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Protesting candidates close IECC office in Kabul

KABUL election candidates on Saturday closed down gates of the Independent Election Complaints Commission (IECC)’s office in Kabul over removal of their names from the final election result list. Around 100 candidates and their supporters from Kunar, Badakhshan and Sar-i-Pul…

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Protesting Baghlan candidates threaten to shut Slang pass

Protesting Wolesi Jirga-North highway in northern Baghlan province for an hour and set the election commission a 12-hour deadline to address their demands. The protesting candidates and their hundreds of supporters staged a rally once again in Pul-i-Khumri…

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South candidates vow only to accept biometrics-based results

Protesting Wolesi Jirga candidates from Helmand, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces on Monday held a gathering in southern Kandahar province to jointly push for the acceptance of only biometrically verified votes cast in the Oct polls. The Independent…

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Candidates from southeast demand audit of all votes

KABUL candidates from Paktia, Khost, Paktika and Logar provinces on Sunday held a meeting in Kabul and demanded a recount and scrutiny of votes cast in the Oct 20 elections. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) conducted the long-delayed elections to…