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KABUL (Pajhwok): Ahmad Walli Masoud, head of the Ahmad Shah Masoud Foundation, on Saturday registered as 11th presidential hopeful at the Independent Election Commission (IEC) along with his deputies.
Ahmad Walli Masoud was accompanied by Dr. Farida Momand, former Higher EducationMinister as his first deputy president, and Abdul Latif Nazar, head of the Ghirjistan Higher Education Institute, as his second deputy.
Masoud, in the past served as Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and headed the Masoud Foundation.
Masoud told reporters after his registration that the national consensus team was comprised of Ulema, intellectuals, civil society organization, youths and national figures and entered with the slogan of change into the presidential race.
He added his team was comprised of six faces with three of them officially registered as presidential and deputies for the July 20 polls the three others would be later picked for the Prime Minister post and deputies.
He added the presidential system caused injustice, corruption and backwardness adding there was need for drastic change in the system.
Masoud said the main problem in past 17 year was that the president was the decision maker who he claimed brought the country at the brink of collapse.
Earlier, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Dr. Zalmai Rassoul, Abdul Latif Pedram, Mohammad Hakim Thorsan, Seyyed Noorollah Jalili, Inayatullah Hafez, Faramarz Tamanna, Shahab Hakimi and Mohammad Hanif Atmar have nominated for presidential elections.
According to the IEC, the candidate registration process would continue until Jan 20 and there is no plan to extend this process.
A presidential candidate should be a Muslim, Afghan citizen, having completed the age of 40 and should present 100,000 supporters and pay a million afghanis to the commission based on the electoral law.

 

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