KABUL(SW): In the democratic countries where elected governments rule, the consistency of the political discourse plays a major role in regards to the politics of those people and influences the social fabric and cultural context of the people of those societies. If the political discourse is not consistent with the cultural and social fabric of those societies; people are unlikely to show interest, and hence we are faced with the phenomenon of "alienation and discourse conflict".
In Afghanistan, the political parties are in a kind of "discourse alienation" among the people, meaning that, the components and elements of the political parties' discourse in Afghanistan are alien to the cultural context of Afghan people; and from the earlier, the intellectual components of the religious process are contrasted with the values of the people in Afghanistan.
In the era of Hamid Karzai's rule from (2001 to 2014), the priorities political culture of the political parties in Afghanistan were the discursive components such as political development, civil society, freedom of speech, détente in foreign policy…that most of these components and elements were not accepted by deep layers of the Afghan society.
With the National Unity government the discourse reshaped itself ethnicism, the choice of governors and commanders based on ethnic relations, preferential foreign policy, solving people's livelihood problems, religious democracy, justice … And these components which stemmed from the complete discourse of Western Democracy, were not well received by the people and could not penetrate the profound layers of the Afghan society and, more importantly, were not institutionalized.
What we encountered in the elections of 2014, was the rebellion of most of the political parties against the sovereignty and values of the government. And this position and acts largely accompanied by the silence and support of the most of the influential parties in Afghanistan. The fact that the presidential election of 2014 could not penetrate deeply into the social layers of the society, and even failed to grab the support of the significant portion of the society, indicates that the political parties which major portion of those are compatible with Mujaheedin's discourse and are alien to the intellectual and cultural fabric of Afghan people (even opposite to them), could not attract the confidence of the people.
It's been a while that the political parties such as Jamiat Islami, Afghanistan's People's Movement (Junbish Mardom Afghanistan), and Afghan People's Unity Party (Hezb-e Wahdat Mardom Afghanistan); talk in the media and political circles about their plans to enter the National Unity government. Obviously, in the democratic ruling in Afghanistan, the participation of all the parties (inside the system and according to the constitution of Afghanistan), in the next election shall be welcomed, but the political parties should consider the two points.
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First, that the discourse of political parties among the people of Afghanistan are in a kind of "discourse alienation" among the people, and the several past elections have shown that people do not have much interest in the political parties. And the second point is that several political party candidates in the presidential election in 2014, backed by a majority of the people, after the election did not respect the vote of the people, nor did they accept the point of view of the constitution.
They did not approve the National Assembly's approval of election, nor they did accept the ruling of the Loya Jirga. And they left the big question that these political parties which did not accept the legal institutions, how do they want to rule the country in light of the Afghan Constitution and what plans they have to apologize from the Afghan people for their controversy?
Technocrats with the usual support of technocracy "uncommitted expertise" or the other trend in the country is technocracy; which trend that adheres to "uncommitted expertise", the presidential election of 2014 has shown that people are more interested in these technocrats. But what is the reason or this interest? Why do foreign supporters in the elections have more confidence in the technocrats and, despite a significant number of political parties elect technocrats?
The answer to this question from the sociological point of view is that the discourse components of political parties (as mentioned above) have a greater affinity with the Afghan nation, precisely for this reason, people believe that political parties can better run the country.
It should not be forgotten that, when it comes to the ruling of the National Unity Government, it is possible that the opportunists who do not believe in the discourse, when they see that this trend of thinking is ruling, make themselves look alike and break in in the system.
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