Saturday, August 01, 2015
Kabul (BNA) Senate’s Chairman Fazel Hadi Muslimyar in a meeting with European Union’s envoy Stephen Hoober said although all senators trusted on personality and work of head of electoral reforms commission Shah Sultan Akefi and member of the commission, the commission has been formed based on expediency not law and had no legal authorization except giving consultation. In the meeting, Muslimyar added, “When members of Independent Election Commission (IEC) and Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) had failed in their mission or were accused of fraud from the point of view of Afghanistan government officials, the best option for the President was to newly introduce individuals from 18 reserved members of IEC and 10 members of the ECC for the respective commissions.” In the meeting, the European Union envoy expressed sadness over previous year’s problems in presidential elections and weaknesses of the election commissions, saying that the international community has postponed its assistance towards election processes, but due to addressing election crisis and in consideration to current circumstances the international community was ready to provide assistance to Afghanistan.
