KABUL — More than a month had passed since dozens of lawmakers walked off their jobs to protest the disputed results of last year’s parliamentary elections, effectively paralyzing the fractured National Assembly by denying it a quorum.
On Saturday, still seething at President Hamid Karzai and with no resolution to the deeper grievances crippling Afghanistan’s government, the dissident members ended their boycott and marched back into the assembly.
Not that much was accomplished during Saturday’s session. Lawmakers made impassioned speeches and left after about an hour. Bitter divisions remained over a recent decision by the country’s election commission to replace nine members of Parliament with losing candidates who had challenged the results of the fraud-plagued election. The New York Times
