New Candidates to Win Half of Afghan Parliament Seats Amid Fraud
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New candidates may win half the seats in Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament amid fraud complaints that forced the scrapping of nearly a quarter of votes cast in last month’s poll, the election commission said.
“The preliminary results indicate that as many as 50 percent of the members may be new faces” in the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga, or House of the People, commission chairman Fazil Ahmad Manawi told reporters at a press conference today in Kabul.