Biography of afghan parliament members
Biography of afghan parliament members and leaders!
House of the People (Afghanistan)
Lower house of the former legislature of Afghanistan
The House of Representatives of the People, or Da Afghanistan Wolesi Jirga (Pashto: دَ افغانستان ولسي جرګه), was the lower house of the bicameralNational Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, alongside the upper House of Elders.
The House of Representatives of the People was the chamber that bore the greater burden of lawmaking in the country, as with the House of Commons in the Westminster model.
Biography of afghan parliament members
It consisted of 250 delegates directly elected by single non-transferable vote.[2] Members were elected by district and served for five years. The constitution guaranteed at least 68 delegates to be female.
Kuchi nomads elect 10 representatives through a Single National Constituency.
The House of Representatives of the People[3] had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president.
The first elections in decades