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Parties Mull Selection Of PR Candidates

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--By Sagar Ghimire
 
Following the Election Commission’s deadline of December 10 for the parties to submit their nominees for the CA under the proportional representation (PR) electoral system, political parties have begun intra party process to pick the names.
 
Nepali Congress (NC), which has grabbed the highest number of seats under the PR system, held the meeting of its Parliamentary Board last Friday to select the names. NC, which has bagged 105 seats under direct system, secured 91 seats under the PR system. The 15-member board is still to pick the names of candidates following the selection criteria, a member of the Board 
told TC. 
 
Likewise, CPN (UML), which won 91 seats under direct system, is also holding its central committee meeting on December 9 to select 84 candidates that is entitled for the CA members under the PR system. Earlier, on last Friday, Standing Committee meeting of the CPN (UML) proposed to nominate half of the total candidates from the central committee and central departments and local committees, weighing their contribution to the party.
 
Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP Nepal) has also said that it is preparing to submit the names of the PR candidates to the EC within a week. RPP-Nepal, which failed to win a single seat under direct electoral system, however, emerged as fourth largest party managing to secure 24 seats under PR system.
 
However, UCPN (Maoist), the third largest party, has said that it would not nominate its representatives unless its demand of forming a probe commission to investigate into the alleged vote rigging is not met. UCPN (Maoist) has won 26 seats under direct system, while it bagged 54 seats under PR system. The winners of the UCPN (Maoist) under the direct system have not accepted the certificate from the EC yet.  Nine other fringe parties that have won few seats, are also joining the UCPN (Maoist) in the chorus of vote rigging. They also have said that they would not recommend the names until probe commission is formed.
 
Earlier last week, the EC had made public the total number of the seats secured by the 30 political parties under the PR system. It has asked 30 parties to recommend the names of the PR candidates to join the CA by December 10. Political parties have to pick the names from the PR list that they have submitted to the EC before the CA polls as per the electoral laws. The laws required the parties to maintain certain per cent of the proportional representation from women, Janajatis, Dalits, Madhesis, people representing the backward communities and Khas Aarya group.

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