{"id":90929,"date":"2019-06-19T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-members-engage-in-scuffle-over-election-for-chairman\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:12:09","slug":"wj-members-engage-in-scuffle-over-election-for-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-members-engage-in-scuffle-over-election-for-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ members engage in scuffle over election for chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/19\/\u062a\u0646\u0634.jpg\" width=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The lingering differences over election of the chairman turned violent at the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Wednesday with MPs throwing chairs around.<\/p>\n<p>An MP, who wished not to be named told Salam Watandar things went messy when&nbsp;a member of the house from Kabul, Amanullah Guzar, wished to escort Mir Rehman Rehmani to secure the chairman&rsquo;s seat. He blamed the WJ member Gul Rehman Hamdard and some other parliamentarians revert to violence.<\/p>\n<p>According to this MP, a member of the house from Kabul, Allah Gul Mujahed got injured and lost conscious in this while.<\/p>\n<p>These differences erupted when Mir Rehman Rehmani and Kamal Nasir Osoli made it to the second round of voting for the chairmanship over a month ago. The interim chairman of the house, Atta Mohammad Dehqanpur named Rehmani as the winner, but a number of protesting MPs claimed Rehmani has failed to secure the minimum legal requirement of 50 per cent plus 1 vote.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The lingering differences over election of the chairman turned violent at the Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Wednesday with MPs throwing chairs around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90929","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\/90929","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=90929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}