Nepal’s president Ram Baran Yadav has formally called upon political parties to nominate a Prime Minister based on political consensus in the next seven days. His move comes in the wake of the government’s inability to forge consensus to hold elections for a Constituent Assembly (CA) on the declared date of November 22, and an opposition campaign seeking PM Baburam Bhattarai’s ouster.
An official release of the president’s office on Friday stated that since the end of the CA, despite repeated discussions with the government and political party leaders, the efforts to forge a political consensus to provide a ‘political and constitutional solution’ and ‘select a PM’ had not succeeded. In this backdrop, the president was ‘appealing’ to all parties to ‘recommend’ an ‘appropriate proposal’ for the selection of the PM and a Council of Ministers ‘based on political consensus’ under Article 38 (1) of the interim constitution. The president has given parties a deadline of November 29, 4 pm, to come up with consensus. Read the rest of this entry »
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