by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 27, 2023After offering the post of President to the largest party in Parliament, the three parties—the Nepali Congress, the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the CPN (Unified Socialist)—are now looking to finalise a new power-sharing deal, including the exact durations individual leaders will become the prime minister for. As the three parties have decided to helm the government by turns, the ongoing five-year tenure of Parliament will…
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report in The Himalayan Times online, Feb 25, 2023Sudurpaschim Province Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah has intensified attempts to secure confidence vote as the deadline for the same nears. After the previous government failed to secure mandatory trust vote leading to its downfall, Nepali Congress’ Shah, in capacity of the parliamentary party leader of the largest party in the provincial assembly, had, by default, become the chief minister. It is important to note that though…
by Subash Bidari in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023A total of three ministers of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in the Bagmati government resigned on Saturday. They submitted their resignation to Chief Minister Shalikram Jammakattel after the party decided to withdraw support to the government in the wake of new political development. The party’s provincial assembly leader Uddhav Thapa was the minister for water supply, energy and irrigation; Dambar Bahadur Tamang the minister for tourism, industry…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023The CPN-UML has expelled businessman and central committee member Durga Prasai from the party. A secretariat meeting of the party held on Saturday expelled Prasai from the party, according to UML’s Deputy General Secretary Prithvi Subba Gurung. Prasai, who was once close to the Maoists, became a representative in the UML’s statute convention held in October 2021. He had entered the party through a formal function held in Jhapa…
by Anil Giri in the Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023Following the filing of candidacies for the post of the President, the CPN-UML, the second largest party in the parliament, still believes it can turn the presidential election in favour of Subas Nembang, its official candidate for the top post. Senior Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Paudel also filed his candidacy for the head of state on Saturday. Paudel’s candidacy was proposed and seconded by leaders…
by Tika R Pradhan in the Kathmandu Post, Feb 26, 2023Two former Speakers, who are also active politicians of the country’s two biggest electoral forces, filed their nominations on Saturday for the March 9 presidential election. With the two previous Presidents courting controversy for trying to exercise ‘extra-constitutional’ powers, what the country really needs is a President who is broadly accepted, who can play a neutral role, and who can act as a true guardian…
by Anil Giri & Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, Feb 25, 2023Exactly two months after CPN-UML chair KP Oli rescued the prime ministerial ambitions of his CPN (Maoist Centre) counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal by ambushing the pre-polls five-party coalition, Nepali Congress appears to have again prised Dahal away from KP Sharma Oli’s embrace. After an over two-hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Dahal on Friday, Oli had departed Baluwatar bitterly disappointed as the Nepali Congress…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 24, 2023Despite a series of intra-party and inter-party parleys on Thursday, no decision could be made on the presidential candidate. Talks have intensified as the date for the presidential election draws close. A tripartite meeting between leaders of the CPN (Maoist Centre), Janata Samajbadi Party and CPN (Unified Socialist) on Thursday agreed to decide the presidential candidate only after a joint meeting with the Nepali Congress on…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 24, 2023With a green signal from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his party CPN (Moist Centre), the Nepali Congress is now gearing up to finalise its presidential candidate for the election slated for March 9. The nominations for presidential election will be filed on Saturday, but major parties are yet to decide their candidates. As the CPN-UML is expecting support from the current ruling parties—the Maoist…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 23, 2023 In the run up to the presidential elections, Nepal’s political parties have begun their exercises to grab the top state position. Claims by several political parties to the presidential positions have thrown up multiple possibilities of who the next President and Vice President will be. The nominations for the top jobs are scheduled for Saturday. But the parties are still discussing the candidates as consensus…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 23, 2023Immediately after the Election Commission on Wednesday kicked off the presidential election process by publishing the voter list, a new kind of political understanding seemed to be in offing between the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre). A meeting between the two sets of leaders on Wednesday evening agreed to revive the old five-party alliance formed in July 2021 after CPN-UML chief KP Sharma Oli’s…