Thursday, January 20, 2011

Electoral fraud: Afghanistan's parliament on hold

The Afghan parliament was elected in September, but the people's representatives have not yet assembled. President Karzai postponed the premiere meeting once again - by several weeks. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has postponed the opening session of parliament in Kabul for more than a month.

Actually the meeting was scheduled for next Sunday, now they should on 22 Take place in February, it said on Wednesday from the presidential palace. Karzai came to the decision to the recommendation of the Constitutional Court, which had requested more time to investigate election fraud allegations.


The chairman of the committee appointed by Karzai, Sedikullah Hakik had said that his staff would need at least another month to investigate the 430 complaints of fraud. Hakik did not rule out that the election could be explained by several Members invalid. Massive electoral fraud had been the promulgation of the final result of the election be delayed by months.

The Electoral Commission (IEC) evaluated not about one quarter of the more than five million votes. They also recognized 24 candidates to preliminary election again. Their supporters were demonstrating for new elections. The Attorney General spoke out for the annulment of the election results.

Karzai was then in the last month, the Special Tribunal to clarify the allegations. Originally, the constituent session of Parliament had been scheduled to take place this Thursday. It had been postponed because of Karzai's trip to Moscow on Sunday. A further delay of 22 February will be out there now but no more, said the Presidential Office on Wednesday.

At the second general election after the end of the reign of the Taliban, only about 40 percent of eligible voters took part. The vote was marred by bloody attacks of Islamic rebels, by at least 22 people were killed. Meanwhile, the assassination of a prominent Afghan journalist was known.

The reporter was attacked in Kabul, it was poured acid in his face. The chief investigator of the Criminal, Mohammad Zahir, said on Wednesday, the former television presenter Rasak Mamun had been attacked the night before on the way home by a masked attacker. A Health Ministry spokesman said family members had Mamun taken to a hospital, his condition is stable.

For security reasons, the victim was laid on Wednesday in a military hospital. Mamun has occurred frequently as an analyst on television talk shows and has written several books. In his latest book, he criticized the Iranian government. A senior police officer Mamun said the hospital and wanted to remain anonymous, said the journalist suspect the government in Tehran after the fact.

"He believes he was attacked for his new book and says that the Iranians are behind the attack." Mamun had given no evidence for it, but it would examine the complaint in the investigation. Rickshaw passengers killed President Karzai condemned the act and ordered the security forces to identify the attacker and to hold accountable.

Afghan journalists' associations called on Karzai's government to protect media. The Media Club Afghanistan, an independent association of journalists called the act "inhuman, un-Islamic and an attack on the media family of Afghanistan." On Wednesday, there were again killed by a terrorist act in eastern Afghanistan were killed in a bomb attack, according to official figures, 13 people were killed.

Their motorized rickshaw had gone about the hidden in the roadside bomb, a spokesman for the provincial governor said on Wednesday. Among the victims were several women and children.

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