The House of Representatives of the People[3] had the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president.

The first elections in decades were held in September 2005, four years after the fall of the Taliban regime, still under international (mainly UN and NATO) supervision.

[9] The Taliban did not include the House of the People and several other agencies of the former government in its first national budget in May 2022.

Government spokesman Innamullah Samangani said that due to the financial crisis, only active agencies were included in the budget, and the excluded ones had been dissolved, but noted they could be brought back "if needed".

[14] The same day final results from four Afghanistan provinces revealed, among other things, that House of the People former speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi of Kunduz had been re-elected to the House of the People as well.