KABUL - A meeting was held between the president, foreign stakeholders and the IEC on next year’s presidential election.
National Unity Government (NUG) leaders have asked the Independent Election Commission (IEC) to announce the date for the 2019 presidential election as “soon as possible”, the President’s Office said in a statement late Sunday.
According to the statement, President Ashraf Ghani met with IEC members, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Tadamichi Yamamoto, and various ambassadors of countries supporting the election process.
“At the meeting the leadership of the NUG asked the IEC to reassure the people about the (voter) registration process and provide facilities for political parties, civil society organizations and international observers to monitor the election process,”the statement read.
“President Ghani made it clear at the meeting that any outside influence, by anyone, including government employees, in the election process will be considered a crime and action will take,” read the statement.
CEO Abdullah Abdullah on Monday also said that the Council of Ministers meeting that the IEC has been asked to announce the date for next year’s polls. He also said “there should be no uncertainty over the will of the NUG for holding of elections.”
"This is the demand of the people that they have a transparent (election)," Abdullah said. (Tolo news)