Afghanistan's TV Election

All Politics Is Local
At Kabul River, Farahmand speaks to a potential voter. "One of the key successes of Afghan Star was that it demonstrated the concept of voting. So we started to think, How do we do the same thing in terms of elections?" says Tolo chief Jahid Mohseni. "One of the critical problems we have in Afghanistan is that we have a personality approach to politics — it's all about who the person is, his family or his ethnicity. It's never about policy, and it is never about the outcome you want. So we thought a program based on a competition about policies could change that."

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