A survey released on Thursday revealed 57 percent of people were not interested in the next month’s presidential election as they believed their votes would bring no change. Conducted by the Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA), the…
KABUL (TEEFA) on Thursday called the ongoing voter registration process as ‘unsuccessful’, saying presidential candidates who launched campaigns earlier than official time should be removed from the list. Sughra Saadat, TEEFA programs manager, told a press conference here that a…
KABUL votes from capital Kabul as ‘a waste of time’, saying technology use in voter registration for the presidential election would create challenges. After the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) cancelled inspection and recount of Kabul votes from 183 polling…
An election watchdog has accused newly-appointed members of the two electoral commissions of lacking a clear agenda and unfamiliarity with the process. The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) alleged interference from the government and some political circles…
KABUL (TEFA) has accused the government of trying to engineer elections in its favor by amending the electoral law. Two days earlier, a number of presidential election candidates and leaders of political parties held a consultative meeting about the electoral…
KABUL (TEFA) on Saturday said election observers were not allowed entry to some polling stations while ballot boxes in some sites were already filled. In a statement, the electoral watchdog said turnout was very high at some polling stations but…
KABUL (TEFA) on Monday said it was concerned about the slow-paced preparations for the upcoming parliamentary and district council elections. The watchdog said elections could not be conducted in some provinces due to security issues this year. TEFA Head Naeem…
KABUL (TEFA) on Sunday expressed its concern about “the lack of preparations” for holding upcoming elections. The electoral watchdog alleged elements in the camps of the president and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) were trying to cancel the Wolesi Jirga…
An election watchdog on Wednesday announced withdrawing from carrying out an evaluation of capacity challenges of the Electoral Complaints Commission, citing “serious disagreements” between members of the secretariat and commissioners. The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan secretariat departments…
The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) on Thursday said keeping silence and not announcing specified date to hold elections showed the government’s reluctance. However, the CEO office said the elections would definitely be held. Naeem Ayoubzada, TEFA’s…
The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) has launched awareness campaign in eastern Nangarhar province about the next parliamentary and district council elections. The group has been working in cooperation with civil society activists to increase public awareness…
KABUL to approve the presidential legislative decree on electoral reform and warned if the decree was rejected, the country might plunge into a political crisis. President Ashraf Ghani issued a second legislative decree on electoral reform in March after his…
KABUL (TEFA) on Sunday said personal interests of politicians had besieged the electoral reform process, accusing the government, particularly the parliament, of delaying tactics in this regard. A statement from the TEFA to Pajhwok Afghan News said more than 20…
KABUL (TEFA) on Thursday declared as ‘impossible’ the conduct of parliamentary and district council elections this year, citing numerous problems. The election watchdog said the long-delayed elections to the lower house could not be held due to security, logistic, technical…
