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Elections

Elections 2014 (1): Impressions from Kunduz at the eve of the elections

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The police chief launches operations to secure insurgency riddled districts. Campaign managers complain about the performance of the IEC. Militia commanders do their best to exhibit power, helping candidates to get more votes for money and incentives offered in case of victory. And then there are those candidates who peacefully compete for the trust of the people, ‘armed’ with […]

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Geld und Pfründe entscheiden über Stimmen

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SRF (Swiss radio), 4 April 2014 AAN's Martine van Bijlert is quoted on voting patterns in Kandahar in 2009 and 2014 here: Damals waren laut Schätzungen 40 Prozent aller Stimmen aus Kandahar gefälscht – zugunsten von Hamid Karzai, wie Martine van Bijlert vom Afghan Analyst Network sagt, einer Denkfabrik in Kabul. Lokale Anführer hätten die […]

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Afghan election a ‘good sign’, says Berlin

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Deutsche Welle, 4 April 2014 In the article on the German political parties' first assessments of the Afghan elections, also AAN's Thomas Ruttig is quoted as saying that the failure of the Taleban to significantly disturb the election day can be interpreted as weakness but also as an attempt not to seek confrontation with the prospective […]

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Präsidentenwahl in Afghanistan

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Inforadio Brandenburg, 4 April 2014 Liisten to a live-Interview (in German) with AAN's Thomas Ruttig, on the democratic content of the upcoming elections.

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Afghanistan wählt eine ungewisse Zukunft

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Die Welt (Germany), 4 April 2014 The German right-wing newspaper has a short quote of the "experts group Afghan [sic] Analysts Network", saying that we predicted a "very chaotic election process".

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Moe van Afghanistan

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De Redaktie (Belgium), 3 April 2014 Opinion blog on the upcoming elections, with a thank to AAN's Thomas Ruttig at the end, maybe for using material from his AAN contributions.

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Wenn Wählen lebensgefährlich ist

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3 April 2014 The largest Swiss daily, in a reportage from Kandahar, quotes AAN's Martine van Bijlert (from Kabul) as "assuming" that those (in Kandahar) who have profit from the international interventionwill vote for the status quo, i.e. Zalmai Rassul, and the others for Ashraf Ghani". … She also predicts that there […]

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Elections and Foreigners: An analysis of recent Taleban violence

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The Taleban have again warned Afghans not to take part in Saturday’s elections, saying they would be attacking election centres and targeting “all parts of the country”. Earlier they warned they would be using “all force” at their disposal to disrupt the “upcoming sham elections”. Kabul has seen two ‘spectacular’ attacks against election-related targets in the […]

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A New Era? Afghan Presidential Hopefuls Court Women’s Vote

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NPR, 3 April 2014 AAN's Martine van Bijlert is quoted on the Afghan women's vote and methods to rig it here: And as … Afghanistan expert Martine Van Bijlert … argue[s], many female voters who do vote don't end up voting for the candidate they personally prefer. "It's not a given actually that women will necessarily […]

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Karzais Wahlpoker

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Frankfurter Allgemeine, 3 April 2014 FAZ's Friederike Böge quotes AAN's Martine van Bijlert on the reliability of Afghan pre-election polls: „Wähler stimmen nicht unbedingt so ab, wie sie es in Umfragen gesagt haben. Und das Wahlergebnis ist auch nicht so, wie gewählt wurde“, sagt Martine van Bijlert, Ko-Direktorin des Analyseinstituts Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. [Voters […]

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Afghanistan goes to polls, amidst uncertainty and violence

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Reuters/The Nation (Pakistan), 3 April 2014 Reuters picks a quote from Martine van Bijlert's AAN election primers: "Afghanistan's electoral system is so badly hampered by fraud, insecurity, and institutional weakness that there is no effective way of knowing what the 'true' vote is," the Afghanistan Analysts Network said in a research note this week.   […]

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