Taliban government scraps the panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration.
Summary
- Taliban government scraps the panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration.
- The Taliban has dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration, says a spokesman for the government.
- “There is no need for these commissions to exist and operate,” spokesman Bilal Karimi said on Saturday, referring to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission.
- Halim Fidai, a senior politician in the previous regime, said the decision to dissolve the electoral commission shows the Taliban “does not believe in democracy”.
- Before the Taliban takeover, several electoral commission officials were killed by armed groups.