Afghan MP plots path to presidential palace

Ramazan Bashar Dost, who represents a seat in the capital, Kabul, says he developed the idea for a public meeting place from Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, and would rather use the money that he would otherwise spend on a proper office to give to the poor.

"We have to change the leadership of our country if we are ever to become rich and democratic. The current people in power destroyed Afghanistan. We have had six years of [President Hamid] Karzai, and it has not been a good experience."

Mr Bashar Dost, a former minister of planning who acquired a degree in political science (and his French accent) at university in Paris, believes he is the man for the job and thinks that his policies of rooting out corrupt governors and ministers will prove popular.
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