President Ram Baran Yadav extended the deadline for the formation of a national consensus government by five days at the request of political parties in the CA on Wednesday.
Yadav had given the parties a week’s time to form a national consensus government after Madhav Nepal resigned as premier last week. However, several rounds of talks failed to yield any results.
An all-party meeting held in the CA building this afternoon concluded that more time was needed to reach an agreement on a consensus government and decided to ask the president to extend the deadline. Senior leaders approached the president with a formal request to extend the deadline in the evening at his office, Shital Niwas.
After meeting with the president, UML chairman Jhalanath Khanal told reporters that the parties would be able to form a consensus government within the extended deadline. “Given the progress made in the past week, we can easily form the government soon,” he said.
However, the political parties have not budged from their respective stances and continue to blame each other for the delay. As the largest party in the CA, the Maoists are claiming they should lead the new government, but the NC and UML in particular are demanding that the Maoists dismantle their army camps before becoming part of a new coalition.
The political parties agreed on consensus politics four years ago, but subsequent majority governments led by the Maoists and then the UML failed to take the peace process any further. If the deadline is missed again, the president can call upon the parliamentary parties to form a majority government as per article 38 of the Interim Constitution. President Ram Baran Yadav extended the deadline for the formation of a national consensus government by five days at the request of political parties.
President Ram Baran Yadav extended the deadline for the formation of a national consensus government by five days at the request of political parties in the CA on Wednesday.
Yadav had given the parties a week’s time to form a national consensus government after Madhav Nepal resigned as premier last week. However, several rounds of talks failed to yield any results.
An all-party meeting held in the CA building this afternoon concluded that more time was needed to reach an agreement on a consensus government and decided to ask the president to extend the deadline. Senior leaders approached the president with a formal request to extend the deadline in the evening at his office, Shital Niwas.
After meeting with the president, UML chairman Jhalanath Khanal told reporters that the parties would be able to form a consensus government within the extended deadline. “Given the progress made in the past week, we can easily form the government soon,” he said.
However, the political parties have not budged from their respective stances and continue to blame each other for the delay. As the largest party in the CA, the Maoists are claiming they should lead the new government, but the NC and UML in particular are demanding that the Maoists dismantle their army camps before becoming part of a new coalition.
The political parties agreed on consensus politics four years ago, but subsequent majority governments led by the Maoists and then the UML failed to take the peace process any further. If the deadline is missed again, the president can call upon the parliamentary parties to form a majority government as per article 38 of the Interim Constitution.
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It is a disgrace to the nation that the political parties are fighting like dogs over a piece of bone. These so called leaders should be building the nation to alleviate the woes of the public, and bicker over who should be in the government to fleece the nation to death. The leaders are only interested in abusing power, and make money.
It is important that the process of dialogue should not be time constraint. Each party is experiencing new discord within and with outside world as the power game unfolds. So each of them needs more time to pacify their base, patch up within the leadership and forge a consensus.
The maoists being the most rigid, orthodox, and top down party with personality cult developed as a religious franaticism needs more time to readjust itself to the reality that they need to discipline their rank and file, and particularly YCL and the combatants, which is not very easy. They need to accomplish it in a way which satifies Nepal outside the Maosists but which does not give the extremists an upper hand. NC and UML understand that.
So many thorny issues need to be settled before a consesnsu government is formed so that it will be able to function without much tussles within and which would ultimately be able to give a constitution to us. It should be a government for the people but not of a political party or dictated by a particular group such as YCL.
Unfortunately in this fluid situation, the civil society seems to be a silent spectator. Why can’t it again come out in force to demand a politically unity government of three major parties at the least? Let the parties feel the heat of the public at this critical junction.
O, but of course.
There is no such thing as “deadline” or “deliverable” in Nepali politics. Our politicians can go on wrangling for however long they like without producing anything tangible except another “agreement”, another big pile of bullsh*t. What a great democarcy we have? Unlimited freedom of speech! Jai, jai, jai New Nepal!
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