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A Flood Of Registering Political Parties At EC
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 31, 2013: leaders and cadres of political parties flocked to the Election Commission (EC) yesterday: the last date for registering political parties at the EC for the purpose of elections to a new CA. Altogether 60 political parties have submitted applications to the EC yesterday alone. Thus, the total number of political parties to be registered reached to 139, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
All 60 political parties that had applied for the registration at the EC for the purpose of the elections were new ones. They needed to apply with the 10,000 signatures according to the new provision made in the Election Act for the registration of political parties at the EC. Political parties that had registered at the EC for the last elections to the dissolved CA did not need to submit the 10,000 signatures.
The number of political parties registered at the EC for the elections to the last CA was 74. Out of this number 54 political parties participated in the elections, and 25 political parties got their representation in the dissolve CA. Later on, some of the political parties split into two or more parties thus making the total of 33 political parties having representation in the dissolved CA.
Leaders of the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya did not bother to register their party at the EC. According to the reporter of the ‘gorkhapatra,’ spokeswoman for the CPN-Maoist-Vaidhya Pampha Bhusal said that in the current state of affairs, her party would not be registered, her party would not participate in the elections, and her party would not allow holding elections.
Spokeswoman Bhusal also said that the demands of her party were to annul the presidential step of March 14, 2013, to dissolve the current government, to form an all-party national government through a round-table meeting, and to revoke the Citizenship Ordinance that had been instrumental to award Nepalese citizenship certificates to foreigners, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
