Dual power in Afghanistan: the Americans were unable to reconcile the Afghan politicians

Monday in Kabul sworn in for second term as the acting head of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani. In parallel with this event its own inauguration for President spent election loser, Prime Minister of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah.

Inauguration by the explosions of missiles

This is the second case where the main presidential candidates in Afghanistan are unable to agree on the outcome of the election. Six years ago, they were reconciled by the Americans. Under pressure from Washington, then Ghani and Abdullah agreed to work together to form a government of national unity.

The signing Ceremony between politicians was broadcast live by the Afghan state television. According to the agreement, Ashraf Ghani took the presidency, Abdullah Abdullah – the head of the government.

The Results of last year's elections, Abdullah again not guilty, accusing the team Ghani of fraud. The procedure of summarizing the voting lasted for a good five months. In mid-February, it ended. The winner of the election is officially declared Ashraf Ghani, who scored 50 to 64 percent of the vote. Prime Minister Abdullah counted 39,52% of the votes.

At this time, the Americans were unable to reconcile Afghan politicians. The US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, all day Sunday and on Monday night spent in negotiations with the teams of Ghani and Abdullah. He achieved even a personal meeting of both politicians, but to reach a compromise failed.

In the end, the choice the Americans made in favor of Ghani. In his inauguration ceremony was attended by Zalmay Khalilzad, commander of NATO forces Scott Miller, foreign ambassadors, representatives of international organizations. Only four thousand guests, including an impressive delegation from neighboring Pakistan, which includes 17 leading politicians in the country.

All they had to endure unpleasant moments when close to the presidential Palace Arg Kabul exploded two rockets. One of them damaged the car of the Vice-President Donish sárvár. Ghani was even forced to suspend at the time of his inaugural speech.
This kind of "salute" to the new President showed that Afghanistan did not come out of a political crisis caused by last year's elections. Moreover, Abdullah his inauguration held also not in the empty hall. On alternative the inauguration of Abdullah Abdullah in a Palace Shapedor came several thousand of his supporters. Among them is the influential leader of the party "Islamic society of Afghanistan" Salahuddin Rabbani, the leader of the Islamic party of Afghanistan Karim Khalili, members of Parliament and members of the clergy.

The Taliban has signed on the world?

The United States said they strongly oppose a parallel government in Afghanistan. It sounded loud, solid, but Washington is ashamed to say that in the Afghan discord that have contributed and the current U.S. administration.

On the last day of February, news agencies reported, the US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Deputy leader of the banned in Russia radical movement "Taliban" Abdullah Gani Baradar signed a peace agreement.

It said: the United States and the Taliban (banned in Russia) tend to "positive relations with each other". Present at the signing ceremony of the agreement Secretary of state Mike Pompeo called on the Taliban to "sever ties with "al-Qaeda" and support the fight against "Islamic state" (both organizations are banned in Russia.).

According to Reuters, the US and its allies undertook for 135 days to withdraw its troops from 5 military bases in Afghanistan. Completely foreign troops will leave the country within 14 months. In addition, the parties agreed on the exchange of detainees and the withdrawal by August of this year the American sanctions against members of the Taliban.
In response, the Taliban gave the Americans assurances that Afghanistan "will not become a haven for terrorists," and the radical movement "will begin peace talks with the government in Kabul." Experts were skeptical of these assurances, remembering that the Taliban between 1996 and 2001 controlled the entire country and left its plans to return to power in Kabul.
Moreover, the leaders of the "Taliban" is not recognized Ashraf Ghani the country's President. They believe Gani "American puppet" and took his inauguration, as well as claims on the government Abdullah Abdullah.

Given the fact that the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban signed without the participation of official Kabul, the Taliban, in fact, a free hand against government forces. Because for Washington, the main thing that the radicals do not interfere with the withdrawal of its troops and did not attack American soldiers who during the war in Afghanistan has lost more than 1,900 people killed and more than 20 thousand wounded.

Official Kabul, weakened public diarchy, now unlikely to restore order in the country. We know that the Afghan government has always been extremely fragmented at the national, clan, tribal, and even religious grounds.

All this is fully manifested in the confrontation Pashtun and Tajik Ghani Abdullah. Besides them there are in Kabul and other clans with their economic and political international relations. They crushed the interests of the elites in front of the monolith of radical Taliban. It is not excluded, that he can go to the main prize of the Afghanistan government in Kabul. At least two governments will facilitate that.

So "the boiling Afghan cauldron",as they say experts, again raises the degree of its temperature. This process carries with it risks for other countries in the region.