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Challenges of the newly formed Parliament
New ranges of forming alliance on the eve of electing Chairman
The first challenge of the newly formed Parliament about election of its Chairman was overcome on the first days of its function. The news of forming alliance made by some so-called political parties on the threshold of electing Chairman for the newly established parliament took numerous people by surprise. This was followed very subtly with vast waves of different reactions and reflections among the people from the different walks of life. To most of the people, the unexpected formation of alliance of Mohaqiq with Sayyaf who has left an unwanted image of himself among the Hazarah community during the civil war was quite a bolt from the blue. Many started following that, to accuse Mohaqiq of bartering away the destiny of Hazarah community and many started to praise him for his action
Regardless of whether this alliance will bear some possible long and short term fruition or not that indeed requires another separate discussion, I believe that forming alliance at this juncture of time, with due regard to the past situation of these parties and relation among them has no considerable impact on a wholly supported candidate for the Chairman Post and further strength of a functional parliament in Afghan society. True and wholehearted alliance of the different parties which their formation and establishment have been solely on the basis of similar ideology, ethnicity and difference of language rather than political objectives and struggles, is a mere dream for the Afghan society. None of these parties is free from affiliation and affinity to specific ideology, ethnicity and differences of language. In view of these facts, they will lose recognition and multilateral support of their respective supporting ethnicities from one hand and will face unprecedented hatred and even violent reaction from all those who ideologically and ethnically back them from the other hand, if they truly form alliance
This is very correct that forming multilaterally ethnic and ideological alliance is quite an ordinary happening in a democratic society and expectedly it’s possible for many political parties and oppositions to become united and struggle for some wholly accepted objectives in their country in concert with one another, but one should not forget this point that the issues of ethnicity, differences of ideology, language and patrimonial predominance and ruling are still very highly sensitive ones in Afghan society. The more than two decades of war and turbulence have left infinite mistrust and the grounds of mentally and physically hostile fronts among the various living ethnicities of this country. They still with all their overwhelming might stay at the top of every agenda for meetings, forums, reconciliation and extra in Afghan society
This is not impossible for the different Afghan ethnicities and their political parties to once come together and form peaceful and friendly existence free from all sorts of bane, hatred, prejudice, incompatibility and intention of blood shedding. History is evident that it’s not the first time the Afghans step towards strengthening their brotherhood and unity, and neither is their unity unprecedented in their political history. But the fighting in the last five years of critical history of Afghans was a more ethnic and ideological war involving all the minorities and ethnicities in the forms of belligerent factions, rather than a struggle for defending their homeland, its sovereignty, dignity and independence against the foreign invasions. As a result, the country was plunged into terrific period of severe turmoil and deep havoc. I think the people can’t easily dispel the impacts of the long lasting internecine war and the traumatizing tumults of those periods nor they can so easily succeed into restoring the fiercely disintegrated national trust that plays a crucially determining role in building a democratic and successful state in human society. True and irreversible formation of alliance and democratic state in Afghanistan are subject to first, complying with the inevitably fundamental changes in the patrimonial form of the ruling system and secondly to replacement of tribal, nepotistic and chronically despotic attitudes with a moderate and democratic ones in the political and social arenas of governance. This will help the Afghans to build their parties more likely on the basis of country wide political objectives rather than ethnic and local ones from one hand, and to leave no stone unturned to struggle for strengthening true brotherhood and democracy from the other hand
Unfortunately, up to now the slogans by the ruling leaders have been national, but ruling and governing have been on ethnic and even despotic basis excluding, liquidating or at least marginalizing the minorities. That’s why
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