"In the future system, we want the Afghan people to express their will through a loya jirga," a form of constituent assembly of elders, he said.
Mr. Karzai said the decision should rest with the Afghan people, and floated the idea of convening a loya jirga, or national assembly of elders.
Under the United Nations plan, those temporary institutions would function for a few months until the spring, when an emergency loya jirga, a traditional constituent assembly of elders, would meet.
More than 2,000 elders have been taking part in the grand assembly of elders, or Loya Jirga, meeting behind closed doors in Kabul for the past four days.
The assembly of elders, known as the Loya Jirga, voted in favour of the pact which would enable thousands of American troops to remain in the country after 2014.
The U.S. has signed off on the agreement, pending approval by the Afghan parliament and loya jirga, the ongoing assembly of elders and prominent Afghans convened by Karzai.
The agreement between Ghani and Abdullah calls for an assembly of elders, a loya jirga, to be held "within two years" to establish the position of prime minister, which Abdullah will presumably want to occupy.
"The idea for this movie was born in an assembly of elders in the Wixarika community of San Andres Cohamiata, so it is fitting that we came together in this way to plan the next steps for the film," said Vilchez.
I tried, but cannot seem to find out how much a Jirga or a tribal assembly of elders costs (A Jirga is a large group of people, sometime numbering up to 2000, that makes decisions by consensus), but after a bit of research I can safely assume that it costs less than a million a week.
