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Presidential elections will be held in Afghanistan in August. The campaign is under way. The right president for Afghanistan should be elected not because he represents a particular ethnic group or simply to please the international community but because he will be able to reverse an increasingly deteriorating situation.

Such a president should be able to fight corruption, give more power to the provinces and Parliament - and give hope to the Afghan people. It does not matter if such a president is Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara or Uzbek. Afghan democrats could care less - they want above all to be Afghan citizens.

We constantly hear that no one is able to replace President Hamid Karzai. That is an insult to Afghans. They are fed up with bad...