Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, Wolesi Jirga, asked President Karzai Saturday to make nominations for attorney general and chief justice.
Attorney General Mohammda Ishaq Aloko has been acting as caretaker after parliament gave him a vote of no-confidence around two years ago; Chief Justice Abdulsalam Azimi has also been serving as caretaker after his tenure ended around the same time.
Parliament said that the continued functioning of these two high-ranking officials is in violation of the law, asking the president to respect the Constitution.
"We ask the president that, pursuant to implementing the Constitution, he seriously respect the will of the people, the parliament and its members and introduce the attorney general and chief justice for confirmation as required by the Constitution," said Speaker Abdulraouf Ibrahimi.
But the outspoken Kabul MP Ramazan Bashardost accused the speaker of having close personal ties with the president, and called on the parliament to withhold budget allocations to attorney general's office and the Supreme Court.
"The Constitution gives us two provisions: article 69, under which we can impeach the president, and article 98 under which, if the attorney general and the Supreme Court are illegal, we can deny their budget allocation this year," said Bashardost.
The parliament's vote of no-confidence to Attorney General Aloko was over accusations of vote rigging and setting up the controversial special court upon orders of the president to mediate electoral complaints after the 2010 parliamentary elections.