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Archive for August, 2010
Status quo
UML central committee meeting on Wednesday insists on national consensus Despite objections by some central committee members to staying neutral, the Wednesday meeting of the UML central committee concluded the party should not participate in the election on 18 August unless a national consensus government is in the offing. With 109 votes, the UML has […]
Uncle Shyam returns
The Indian government has sent former ambassador to Nepal, Shyam Saran, to Kathmandu to make a fresh effort to get the political parties to patch up differences that have deadlocked the election of a new prime minister. Saran was the architect of the 12-point understanding between the Maoists and the seven parties in November 2005, […]
Third time unlucky
Parliament failed to elect a new prime minister for the third consecutive time today. When voting finally took place late Monday, UCPN (Maoist) candidate Pushpa Kamal Dahal obtained 259 votes from the 581 members present in the house, up from the 241 votes he had obtained in the second round of voting. The CPN (Marxist […]
Take three
The UCPN (Maoist) is still trying to woo the Madhesi alliance for the third round election for the post of prime minister, scheduled to be held at 4pm Monday. If the Madhesi alliance stays neutral again, the voting will not produce a result, like the last two times. The alliance is still undecided on whether […]
