{"id":78660,"date":"2018-07-11T08:03:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T08:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/no-female-candidates-for-157-district-councils\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:51:20","slug":"no-female-candidates-for-157-district-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/no-female-candidates-for-157-district-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"No female candidates for 157 district councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/July\/11\/Election 2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has announced to issue the final list of candidates for the forthcoming district council elections in a week&rsquo;s time.<\/p>\n<p>Sheema Elm Sarosh, deputy spokesperson for the IEC, shared the details with Salam Watandar in this regard.&nbsp; She said not a single female candidate has filed nomination papers in 157 districts while 37 districts remain without any candidate. She expressed concerns over such situation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The IEC deputy spokesperson noted a week&rsquo;s time has been given to women to file nomination papers in these 157 districts.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the IEC has already hinted to extend the deadline for the voter registration drive in a number of restive provinces.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has announced to issue the final list of candidates for the forthcoming district council elections in a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}