Editing Mohammad Najibullah (section)

====Elections: 1987 and 1988====
Local elections were held in 1987. It began when the government introduced a law permitting the formation of other political parties, announced that it would be prepared to share power with representatives of opposition groups in the event of a coalition government, and issued a new constitution providing for a new [[bicameral]] National Assembly (Meli Shura), consisting of a Senate (Sena) and a House of Representatives ([[Wolesi Jirga]]), and a president to be indirectly elected to a 7-year term.<ref>{{cite book | title = Regional Surveys of the World: Far East and Australasia 2003 | publisher = [[Routledge]] | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-1-85743-133-9 | page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=e5Az1lGCJwQC&pg=PA65 65] }}</ref> The new political parties had to oppose [[colonialism]], [[imperialism]], [[neo-colonialism]], [[Zionism]], racial discrimination, [[apartheid]] and [[fascism]]. Najibullah stated that only the extremist part of the opposition could not join the planned coalition government. No parties had to share the PDPA's policy or ideology, but they could not oppose the bond between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. A [[1988 Afghan parliamentary election|parliamentary election was held in 1988]]. The PDPA won 46 seats in the House of Representatives and controlled the government with support from the [[National Front (Afghanistan)|National Front]], which won 45 seats, and from various newly recognized left-wing parties, which had won a total of 24 seats. Although the election was boycotted by the Mujahideen, the government left 50 of the 234 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as a small number of seats in the Senate, vacant in the hope that the guerrillas would end their armed struggle and participate in the government. The only armed opposition party to make peace with the government was [[Hizbollah (Afghanistan)|Hizbollah]], a small [[Shi'a]] party not to be confused with the bigger party in Iran or the [[Hezbollah (Lebanon)|Lebanese organization]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Giustozzi, Antonio | title = War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, 1978–1992 | publisher = [[C. Hurst & Co.|C. Hurst & Co. Publishers]] | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-1-85065-396-7 | page = [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hz5NzJtg48kC&pg=PA161 161] }}</ref>