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Taliban Dissolve Afghan Election Commissions, 2 Ministries 

Posted on 12/25/2021

The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s election commission, a panel that supervised polls during the previous Western-backed administration, a spokesman for the Islamist government said on Saturday. 

“There is no need for these commissions to exist and operate,” Taliban government spokesman Bilal Karimi said, referring to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission. 

“If we ever feel a need, the Islamic Emirate will revive these commissions,” he added.

The Taliban swept to power in August as a Western-backed government imploded in the final stages of the military withdrawal of the U.S. and its allies. 

Established in 2006, the IEC was mandated to administer and supervise all types of elections, including presidential, according to the commission’s website. 

Hasty decision

“They have taken this decision in a hurry … and dissolving the commission would have huge consequences,” Aurangzeb, who led the panel until the fall of the previous regime, told AFP. 

“If this structure does not exist, I’m 100 percent sure that Afghanistan’s problems will never be solved as there won’t be any elections,” said Aurangzeb, who like many Afghans goes by one name. 

Halim Fidai, a senior politician in the previous regime, said the decision to dissolve the electoral commission shows the Taliban “do not believe in democracy.” 

“They are against all democratic institutions. They get power through bullets and not ballots,” said Fidai, who was governor of four provinces over the past two decades. 

Before the Taliban takeover, several electoral commission officials were killed by extremist groups.

Ministries dissolved

Karimi said the authorities had also dissolved two government departments this week: the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. 

The deeply conservative Taliban had already shut down the former administration’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs and replaced it with the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. 

That ministry earned notoriety during the Taliban’s first stint in power in the 1990s for harshly enforcing religious doctrine. 

The Islamists are pressing the international community to restore billions of dollars in suspended aid and have pledged a more moderate rule this time around. 
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