Basics

August 31, 2010

Thousands of billboards, posters and banners line the streets of Afghanistan’s cities, each an advertisement for some of the 2,584 candidates in the country’s parliamentary elections.

August 31, 2010

There were 80 political parties registered for Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections five years ago.

This time, there are only five and one of those failed to get any candidates on the ballot papers.

August 31, 2010

With less than one per cent of the vote, a candidate can be elected to Afghanistan’s lower assembly, the Wolesi Jirga.

The voting method employed for the September 18 poll is called the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV) system.

August 31, 2010

Some voters will have to thumb through a 12 double-sided page ballot paper when they go to choose their candidate in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections.

Like the two presidential elections and previous legislative election, they will need to show their voter registration cards in order to cast their vote.

August 31, 2010

The Wolesi Jirga, or House of the People, is the supreme law-making body in Afghanistan. The 249-seat assembly sits alongside the Meshrano Jirga to form Afghanistan’s bi-cameral parliament.

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