At his point with the press in Kabul today, the spokesman for the Assistance Mission to the UN in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has responded to questions from reporters who asked him about the rumors of a possible postponement of elections scheduled for September. .

To this, Manoel de Almeida e Silva said that there was indeed an ongoing debate on the election date. He said that the United Nations played a role in these discussions as an institution co-organizer with the Afghans of this election.

Moments before, Manoel de Almeida e Silva had stated that further explosions had taken place yesterday in Jalalabad a few days after the explosion of bombs in a car killed two women working in the organization of elections.

If these attacks are intended to discourage the participation of the population, they do not seem to be as successful as hoped, suggested the spokesman, who stressed that in the interval between the two incidents, 40,000 Afghans had been register on the electoral lists and the daily number of entries had increased continuously since June 26 last Saturday with just a slight slowdown on June 29, the day after the explosion the bus when the number registrants was increased from 11 063-10 838.

The number of registered voters in the June 29 approaching the 5.5 million while the percentage of women enrolled, 38% now, continues to increase. In rural areas this percentage is 6% higher than in cities, said Manoel de Almeida.

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