Democracy: Afghan Style
February 23, 2010 · Posted in Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai pulls a fast one:
The country’s Electoral Complaints Commission previously included three foreign experts chosen by the UN. But Karzai has taken exclusive power to appoint all five panel members under a presidential decree published today, while the Afghan parliament is in recess.
After all, we don’t want another repeat of the vote-rigging in last year’s presidential elections, do we? Or, rather, we don’t want a repeat of the investigation into vote-rigging.
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