{"id":90891,"date":"2019-06-13T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/iec-pledges-to-improve-public-awareness-campaign\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:11:44","slug":"iec-pledges-to-improve-public-awareness-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/iec-pledges-to-improve-public-awareness-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC pledges to improve public awareness campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/13\/\u0627\u0646\u062a\u062e\u0627\u0628\u0627\u062a.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Independent Election Commission on Saturday vowed to change and improve the public awareness campaign in connection with the forthcoming presidential polls.<\/p>\n<p>Mawlana Mohammad Abdullah, a commissioner at the IEC, told a moot in connection with consultation with political parties and civil society organizations that changes are needed to move away from the previously &lsquo;commercial&rsquo; strategy of the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>He warned if the turnout remained low during the forthcoming presidential polls, the situation might lead to further chaose.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of a number of political and CSOs shared views and recommendations with the IEC, and urged the electoral commissions to strive towards fair and inclusive presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Independent Election Commission on Saturday vowed to change and improve the public awareness campaign in connection with the forthcoming presidential polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90891","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\/90891","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=90891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}