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| 81 Polling Centres Closed in Eastern Nangarhar Province |
| 2010-09-08 |
| [Tolo News] Officials in the Independent Election Commission (IEC) remarked on Tuesday that 81 other polling centres are to remain closed in eastern Nangarhar province "Some 81 of 458 centres which were to be opened in Nangarhar, will remain closed during the elections. The security organisations think it would be impossible to open these centres," said head of the IEC, Mohammad Fazel Manawi. Afghan security organisations have declared "more than 61 other centres under threat and this could be discussed somehow, but 81 centres are impossible to be opened", he said. Sixty other polling centres in Nangarhar are also likely to be closed, said head of the IEC. In total, 119 polling centres have been closed all over the country. With 114 centres to remain closed in it during the parliamentary elections, Nangarhar will be the province with the largest number of closed centres in the country. Meanwhile, a number of supporters of a delisted parliamentary elections candidate demonstrated on Tuesday before the Electoral Complaints Commission's office. The demonstrators called the delisting of this candidate an illegal act, but the Electoral Complaints Commission said he was removed from the list for not resigning from his governmental post ahead of the set deadline. |
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