Will IECC’s fresh move break election standoff?

In a fresh move, Afghanistan Independent Electoral Complaint Commission (IECC) has decided to undertake ‘recount and special audit’ process in over 1,700 polling stations. This decision by the IECC comes while it had undertaken assessing election complaints late in December 2019.  

The IECC has made this decision after reviewing 16,500 complaints lodged by the presidential tickets over vote manipulation and more than 6,200 appeals registered by the presidential candidates in regard to IECC’s decisions on their complaints.