Sunday, August 21, 2011
Karzai gets his minions back
And the actual winners of 9 seats in the Afghan Parliament are to be thrown out.
The country’s beleaguered election commission gave in to political pressure on Sunday and declared that it would change the results of the latest parliamentary elections.And we are still paying $Billions and sacrificing American lives to protect the Afghan way of life.
The Independent Election Commission announced at a news conference on Sunday that nine members of Parliament would be removed, after having ruled that the election results were final and saying that even the commission could not change the outcome. Nine candidates, previously disqualified over electoral irregularities, would have their seats restored.
“We did not willingly get involved in this case, but it was our obligation to end this crisis,” the commission chairman, Fazil Ahmad Manawi, said.
The controversy over the results of September’s parliamentary elections have paralyzed the Afghan government for 11 months, provoking street demonstrations by losers and counter-demonstrations by winners, and preventing President Hamid Karzai from appointing a cabinet or nominating new Supreme Court justices.
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Hmm, sounds a lot like the 2000 election results in Florida :).
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