{"id":90225,"date":"2019-03-10T03:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T03:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-candidates-with-less-votes-to-face-fine\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:04:14","slug":"wj-candidates-with-less-votes-to-face-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-candidates-with-less-votes-to-face-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ candidates with less votes to face fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"541\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/March\/10\/election.jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Independent Election Commission has announced those Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates winning less than 2 per cent of corresponding votes in their constituencies would be fined.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Aziz Ibrahimi, spokesman for the IEC, has said such candidates would be penalized with a fine of AFN 30,000. He added this amount would be deducted from the guarantee money the candidates have deposited with the IEC.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman further said the candidates winning more than 2 per cent of the corresponding votes their respective constituencies would not be fined.<\/p>\n<p>The EJ polls were held in October last year, but widespread allegations of rampant fraud and irregularities have marred the pending outcomes from a number of provinces.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Independent Election Commission has announced those Wolesi Jirga (lower house) candidates winning less than 2 per cent of corresponding votes in their constituencies would be fined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90225","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\/90225","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=90225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}