A day after 17 presidential candidates voted for new election commissioners, some former officials of the election commissions said many of the new faces lack the required experience to manage the upcoming elections.
 
Electoral monitoring organizations raised the same issue, saying that a merit-based appointment process should be implemented for selection of the new members of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC).
 
In this episode of Mehwar, host Wahid Ahmadi discusses the topic with Najibullah Ahmadzai, former head of IEC.