Friends and foes form front to curb Karzai's powers

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

Friends and foes form front to curb Karzai's powers By Sayed Salahuddin
35 minutes ago



KABUL (Reuters) - Key members of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government have joined forces with some of his arch rivals to form a party that aims to curb his powers.

Launched on Tuesday, the National Front is largely made up of veterans of the mujahideen resistance war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The party wants to change the constitution so that a prime minister is appointed to share control with the president over government affairs and oversee elections for governors and mayors.

"We do not want presidential system," said Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, a parliamentarian, and spokesman for the National Front.

"We want the role of a prime minister in order to improve democracy in our society," he said.





Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/wl_nm/afghan_party_dc

[acmavm]

1. Wow! Sounds like Karzai doesn't have any control over anything

including the six square blocks of Kabul that we've always given him credit for.

Wonder how this fits in with the bush**/cheney plan?????

[Javaman]

2. perhaps they are getting ready to throw him under the bus...nt