{"id":89765,"date":"2019-01-08T05:51:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/protesters-threaten-to-boycott-presidential-polls\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:58:52","slug":"protesters-threaten-to-boycott-presidential-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/protesters-threaten-to-boycott-presidential-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters threaten to boycott presidential polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/January\/08\/kondoz (2).JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KUNDUZ (SW) &ndash; A number of Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates in Kunduz province close down the Independent Election Commission office in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The agitating candidates, who are not in the list of the winners, claim widespread irregularities have taken place in the parliamentary polls here. Setting up a protest camp in Kunduz, they vowed not to end the agitation drive until all the votes are recounted again, and the biometric verified ones are separated from those not verified. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They also threatened to boycott the forthcoming presidential polls, if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>They asserted a leaked video indicates provincial head of the IEC and the secretary of the electoral commission discussing declaring influential and politically connected candidates as successful despite lack of enough vote.<\/p>\n<p>IEC officials in Kabul told SW the accused official, Rasul Umer, has been asked to clarify his position, but he has not approached the electoral commission headquarters yet.<\/p>\n<p>We wished to have the views of IEC officials in Kunduz, but they declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUNDUZ (SW) \u2013 A number of Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates in Kunduz province close down the Independent Election Commission office in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-89765","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\/89765","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=89765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}