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President Karzai has agreed to the proposal of establishing a special court to address the electoral mismanagements and frauds that nearly discredited the parliamentary elections held in September this year.
The special court of law will have the authority to assess legal claims regarding the parliamentary elections of 18th September. However, the Afghan Electoral Complaints Commission has ruled out the rejection of any results announced earlier by the Afghan Independent Election Commission. In reaction to the latest developments, the Electoral Complaints Commission has reiterated that the declared results can’t be changed or modified at all and no other institution has the legal right to decide otherwise.
The final results of fraud marred elections was finally declared after multiple delays a month ago, the issue, however, has not totally settled yet.
The Attorney General of Afghanistan has repeatedly called for the cancellation of the results declared holding them invalid, alleging that fraud did take place on such a scale that the results have to be declared null and void.
In the aftermath of such developments, the Supreme Court of Afghanistan proposed to the President to form a special court with special powers to see into the mass fraud cases that took place during the elections.
The results of elections were withheld a number of times before they were finally announced a month ago. The declaration of results were taken with a grain of salt and the case deteriorated when from one of the eastern provinces, Ghazni, equally populated by the ethnics Pashtuns and Hazaras no Pashtun could make it to the Parliament and all of the 11 parliamentary seats went to the Hazaras, sparking anger in the presidential palace. The President hasn’t yet approved of the results wholeheartedly and awaits further developments in this regard. In addition, he has failed to set a specific date for the inauguration of the new Afghan Parliament. This has increased anxiety among the elected candidates about their future.
