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Parties Intensify Power Sharing Parleys

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--By Sagar Ghimire / Angila Sharma 
 
As the Election Commission has made public the final results of Constituent Assembly polls, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (UML) - emerged as two largest parties- have also started negotiations on forming the new government.  In a bid to form a national consensus government, NC president Sushil Koirala and CPN (UML) chairman Jhalanath Khanal held a meeting last Thursday.  UML leader Raghuji Pant, who was also present in the meeting, informed that the leader duo exchanged congratulation for the victory in the polls.  Issues of government formation and constitution drafting also transpired during the meeting, he said. It is learnt that Khanal also asked Koirala to take the initiative to form the new government and to try bringing the other parties on board as well.
 
Likewise, NC president Koirala has also met with the UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal last Monday (November 25) to seek latter’s support for the formation of the government and drafting new constitution on the basis of consensus. “No party can make any difference alone. So we should work together for government formation and constitution-drafting,” Koirala told Dahal. 
 
Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) has demanded the provision for the mandatory consensus be reinstated in the interim constitution for forming the government. The meeting of the UCPN (Maoist) held on November 25 has concluded that the consensual provision was imperative to draft the new constitution and form the government. “The Interim Constitution should be amended and a system of consensus established for constitution drafting and for other things as well,” read the press statement of the UCPN (Maoist). NC and CPN (UML) have, however, rejected such demand. The Central Working Committee meeting of the NC held last Wednesday inferred that it would not accept any proposal that demands making consensus politics mandatory through constitutional amendment.  
 
“Though we are for consensus government, the demand to amend the constitution to include the provision of mandatory consensus is not acceptable to us,” a CWC leader of the NC said. 
 
Disputes over Prez tenure
With the new result of the CA polls, parties are also divided over the tenure of the incumbent President Dr Rambaran Yadav and Vice-president Paramananda Yadav. While NC is maintaining that the President Dr Yadav should remain in the office until new constitution is drafted, UML leaders are demanding new power sharing agreement in the changed scenario. UCPN (Maoist) has thrown its weight behind the reelection of the new President and the Vice-president in the post-poll scenario. Likewise, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N) Chairman Kamal Thapa has called for the election for new president and vice-president as per the fresh mandate of the CA polls.

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