IEC members receive AFN 100,000 monthly bonus payments

President Ghani has earmarked AFN 100,000 bonus salary for each member of the Independent Election Commission (IEC).

The recent letter, signed by President Ghani, shows that he has approved to add AFN 100,000 to the salaries of the head and members of the Independent Election Commission (IEC).

The chairman and members of the Electoral Commission had asked the president for an AFN 200,000 increment each in the first place.

Currently, Hawa Alam Nuristani, the head of the Electoral Commission, receives a fixed salary of AFN 500,000, AFN 100,000 food allowance, AFN 65,000 house rent, and AFN 10,000 for top-up cards which bring her total monthly payment to almost AFN 800,000.

Similarly, the financial privileges of members of the election commissions each amount to nearly seven hundred thousand Afghanis: the fixed salaries are 5 hundred thousand Afghanis, food allowances are 100 thousand Afghanis, and rents are 65 thousand Afghanis each with 5 thousand Afghanis of top-up cards.

On the other hand, the Electoral Commission has fired 120 employees of the organization in a new decision and has hired new people instead.

Electoral overseers, meanwhile, see this as illegal and questionable.

Ariana News tried to have the opinion of the members of the Election Commission on the matter but did not succeed.

This comes while the members of the Electoral Commission are accused of leading the election of the House of Representatives and the subsequent presidential election to the crisis, as well as favoring President Ghani.