{"id":78817,"date":"2018-08-01T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T09:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/president-blamed-for-trying-to-hand-pick-parliament\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:53:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:53:11","slug":"president-blamed-for-trying-to-hand-pick-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/president-blamed-for-trying-to-hand-pick-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"President blamed for trying to hand-pick parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/7- Augest\/1\/Fidration 3.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The federation of civil societies on Wednesday charged president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, for striving to handpick the next parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Sidiq Mansur Ansari, head of the federation, said the president is aiming to form a foundation &lsquo;Democracy&rsquo; through which up to 150 parliamentarians would be helped to secure seats in the Wolesi Jirga (lower house).<\/p>\n<p>He added this proposed foundation is particularly interested in supporting young parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari claimed appointments at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) have been based on contacts and corruption.&nbsp;The federation of civil societies charged the IEC commissioner, Seema Badghesi, for appointing close relatives in the commission.&nbsp;Salam Watandar wished to have the views of Seema Badghesi, but repeated calls were not responded. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shah Hussain Murtazavi, deputy spokesman for the president, told Salam Watandar the president is committed towards inclusive and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The federation of civil societies on Wednesday charged president, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, for striving to handpick the next parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78817","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\/78817","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=78817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}