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Afghan Mellat, a major or minor party

At this moment, Afghan Mellat party has 8 members in the parliament^[1], they have (recently had) high ranking positions in the government, ex Finance Minister (Anwar-ul Haq Ahadi), Deputy Education Minister(Sediq Patman), former governor of Farah Province (Asad), ex finance minister and a candidate for 2009 elections (Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai)^[2] and so on. They have official offices in Kabul, Nangarhar, Kunar, Farah, Ghor, Herat, Jouzjan^[3] and several other provinces. How can this be a minor political party?

What exactly makes a party major/minor? If I was to answer the question, I would say if a party has a lot of members in the parliament, official offices located in several provinces, occupied high ranking positions in the government would make a party not a minor but a major political party. (Ketabtoon (talk) 16:01, 8 September 2009 (UTC))[reply]

References

[1] ttp://www.benawa.com/stuff/jarga.php

[2] ttp://www.icosgroup.net/documents/power_to_the_people.pdf Page 17

[3] ttp://www.pajhwokelections.af/dari/viewstory.php?storyid=96

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