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Four-Party Leaders Entrust Making Of An Election Law
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 11, 2013: Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has said that the election bill to be recommended by the Interim Election Council Of Ministers will be acceptable to his party and other parties, too. "The parties have agreed to accept whatever decision the government takes. There will not be further debate on this [election law]," the Maoist chairman told reporters at Biratnagar airport yesterday afternoon, hours after the high-level political committee of the four parties decided to ask the government to go ahead with the election bill, according to nepalnews.com.
He also claimed that there won't be any threshold in the election laws and that today's four-party 'understanding' would create momentum for the elections, according to nepalnews.com. However, speaking to the reporters from the meeting yesterday, CPN-UML cadre Raghuji Panta said that the CPN-UML would stick to the threshold of 2% to 5%.
The four-party political mechanism could not make decisions on the threshold, and allowing the convicted politicians to contest in the elections or not. So, the leaders of the four parties decided to entrust the making of election laws to the Interim Election Council of Ministers, and accept it. However, it remains to be seen how the political leaders would react to such a law.
