{"id":84146,"date":"2017-02-26T07:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T07:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/government-warned-against-meddling-in-electoral-affairs\/"},"modified":"2017-02-26T07:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T07:13:06","slug":"government-warned-against-meddling-in-electoral-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/government-warned-against-meddling-in-electoral-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Government warned against meddling in electoral affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"343\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/26\/naiem.jpg\" width=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) has claimed it has documents which show the government has interfered in the affairs of the electoral commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Naim Ayubzada, head of TEFA, told a press conference here on Sunday people are tired of the government&rsquo;s interferences in the affairs of the electoral commissions, and people want the government to act transparently. &ldquo;We have sufficient documents which proves the government&rsquo;s inference in election process, we will leak the documents if such interference continues&rdquo;, warned Ayubzada.<\/p>\n<p>According to TEFA upcoming elections is a hope for the Afghans, but government inference will shut that hope.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has rejected reports about interference in its affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Najibullah Ahmadzai, Chairman for the IEC, told Salam Watandar the electoral commission is an independent entity, and it does not allow any interference. &ldquo;We have started initial preparations for the upcoming elections, there are institution to observe the fairness of the elections&rdquo;, informed Ahmadzai.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) has claimed it has documents which show the government has interfered in the affairs of the electoral commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84146","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=84146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}