KABUL, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- The National Congress party of Afghanistan (NCPA) has accused the government of monopolizing the electoral process in order to facilitate its men to secure majority in the coming parliament.
"We do not believe that the coming parliament will be a democratic establishment to represent the nation as the electoral process regulated by authorities facilitates certain candidates victory," deputy chairman NCPA and candidate for the legislation Bashir Ahmad Bezghan told Xinhua on Sunday.
A certain group, he added had been tasked to work under the mask of democracy to stabilize the shaky pillars of the present administration.
"Certain candidates financed and sponsored by the government, the United States and other countries are campaigning to ensure their masters' interests in Afghanistan," Bezghan noted but refused to identify any.
He warned that NCPA and like-minded parities would boycott the result of the legislative polls if the votes were not counted in the polling stations.
"If the authorities continue to reject our demand in tallying at voting sites we and our associates would boycott the result of legislative elections," he said.
Earlier, leader of the main opposition alliance the National Understanding Front Mohammad Yunus Qanooni also objected the electoral process as unfair and stressed for tally at voting centers.
In the meantime, the UN-sponsored Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) said that all the ballot boxes would be taken to provincial capitals for counting.
The National Congress party of Afghanistan (NCPA) with 63 candidates in the run for elections is one of over a dozen political groups contesting to secure comfortable seats in the 249-seat parliament in the post-war nation.
Over 12 million Afghans are going to elect their representatives through the first direct elections in over three decades on Sept. 18 amid tight security. Enditem |