The Taliban dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs, an official says.
Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government, says the country’s Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaint Commission have been dissolved.
He calls them “unnecessary institutes for the current situation in Afghanistan.” He says if there is a need for the commissions in the future, the Taliban government can revive them.
Both elections commissions were mandated to administer and supervise all types of elections in the country, including presidential, parliamentary and provincial council elections.
Karimi says the Taliban also dissolved the Ministry for Peace and the Ministry of Parliamentarian Affairs, which he calls unnecessary ministries in the government’s current structure.
The Taliban had previously shut down the former Women’s Affairs Ministry.
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