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Deadline For Forming a Government
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The President has set May 9, 2009 the deadline for forming a new government.
Political parties have been doing the simple arithmetic of arriving at the majority to form a new government. The CPN-UML called all-party meeting on May 05, 2009. The UCPN-Maoist, Madheshi People’s Right Forum (MPRF) and Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (NWPP) did not attend the meeting.
The Nepali Congress (NC) has at least for some time agreed to the CPN-UML leading a new government, however, it reserves its rights to form a new government as the second largest party in the parliament.
The so-called all-party meeting has the problem of choosing a leader to head a new government. Chairman of CPN-UML Jhalanath Khanal has the valid claim for the position of Prime Minister but senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal has also staked the claim for leading a new government.
Leader of MPRF Bijaya Kumar Gacchadar has hinted that his party might claim for the top position of a new government, as none of the combinations of political parties without the MPRF makes a simple majority required for forming a new government.
The UCPN-Maoist has started off obstructing the parliamentary session on May 5, 2009, and has declared that its members of the parliament would continue to obstruct the parliamentary session until the President takes back the letter sent to the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) stating to stay on in the job and publicly apologizes for the unconstitutional actions of the president. So, the formation of a new government will be left stranded until the parliament runs smoothly.
