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Seven rounds of internationally monitored and accredited national and regional elections over the past two decades.
by simonh 5y ago
Seven rounds of internationally monitored and accredited national and regional elections over the past two decades.
- hhsbz 5y agoThe turnout of the latest election is 19%
- simonh 5y agoFor several elections it's hovered around the 1/3 mark. That's not bad by regional standards, and bear in mind several large and populous regions in Afghanistan are non-Pushtun and even follow different branches of Islam. There's just no way the Taliban can conceivably command anything more than middling minority support. They just have more guns and a bloodier determination to use them. Unfortunately, as is often the case, that’s all it takes.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoDuring those two decades the country was operating under a western puppet government. The fact that the Taliban swept in so quickly with no resistance means that they were always there to begin with.