The poor management and erroneous actions of the National Unity Government have badly undermined the popularity and credibility of the regime. Unruliness within the government has reached a level that the president cannot enforce his decrees and orders in some instances, and even relatively low-level strongmen do not shy away from challenge presidential orders at the provincial level. The second deputy of the chief executive officer of the government, who was fired a while back, continues to attend the meetings of Council of Ministers, and now the incumbent members of Wolesi Jirga who have already served three additional years beyond their five-year term now publicly threaten that if the president or his vice president does not inaugurate the parliament, they would do it themselves.
This and many other similar issues have arisen from a lack of government’s plans to manage its affairs. Even four years after the parliamentary election was held, the final results have not yet been announced, which means that the fate of the election remains unknown, whereas the parliament’s working year should have been inaugurated today, according to applicable laws. This has allowed the current parliamentarians to make threats of opening the parliament. The inauguration of parliament with “former lawmakers” at a time when parliamentary election has been held four months ago will be an embarrassment. It will also be surprising to inaugurate the new working year with former parliamentarians, and then the newly elected members join the house after the election results are announced.
Afghan people are not expecting the leadership of the National Unity Government to undertake major development works and completely improve the country’s political, economic and security situation, because they proved over the past four years and a half that they don’t have the capacity to do so.
The only thing people expect from them is to continue to work till the presidential election and transfer of power to the new administration in a way that the entire regime doesn’t collapse or that lawlessness doesn’t escalate into a point that can ruin the gains of the almost last two decades. Government leaders, especially President Ghani must not get too bogged down in efforts to stay in power that he completely forgets about the survival and wellbeing of the regime. The government leadership must prevent another political crisis by determining the fate of Wolesi Jirga election as soon as possible.
