President Ghani on Sunday appointed new members of the election commissions, chairman of the secretariat of the election commission and electoral commissions in separate decrees

17 possible candidates for the upcoming presidential elections voted in favor of new electoral commissioners on Friday, according to Arg

Hanif Atmar, the “peace and moderation” electoral nominee, criticized government’s measures during a press conference on Monday, saying that dismissing electoral commissioners is illegal and the agenda of consultative Loya Jirga must be clear

Mohammad Mohaqeq, the second deputy to the “peace and moderation” electoral ticket said during a press conference on Saturday that the government is seeking to manipulate the parliamentary elections and engineering the presidential elections by dismissing the electoral commissioners and rushing to introduce them to the attorney general office

Sayed Alireza Mahmoodi, the chairman of National Consensus and Change leadership council says that if the dismissed commissioners are not prosecuted, the lost trust of people would not be restored

After president Ghani dismissed the commissioners of the two electoral bodies, Afghan attorney general office barred all commissioners from leaving the country

the main factor these incoherent politicians gathered in fragile electoral tickets, is not an intentional investment to go to ARG but to discharge their political complexes…

Candidate registration process ended on Sunday with 18 nominees registered to race for Afghan presidential election due to be held on 20 July 2019

Sayed Alireza Mahmoodi, the chairman of “National Consensus and Change” leadership council has recently said that holding the presidential elections with the current commission will not be acceptable for any side in the Afghan community

President M. Ashraf Ghani registered his nomination on Sunday afternoon alongside Amrullah Saleh as his first vice president and M. Sarwar Danish as second vice president