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NC and CPN-UML Flopped In Garnering Majority
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 11, 2012: NC and CPN-UML leaders have jointly called a political meet of 16 political parties ostensibly to put pressure on the UCPN-Maoist for honoring the past deals but actually for garnering a majority for forming a new government. However, the small parties have indicated that they are not for changing a government at this time but for putting pressure on the major political parties including the NC and CPN-UML to complete the peace process and the constitution writing.
Smaller parties represented in the parliament have yesterday urged NC and CPN-UML leaders to form their common stand on a governance system and then negotiate with the UCPN-Maoist leaders rather than attempting on toppling the current government. So, NC and CPN-UML leaders have decided to clarify their common stand on a system of governance after consulting the leaders of small political parties.
The constitution writing has been halted after the NC leaders and the UCPN-Maoist leaders have refused to backtrack from their stand on a system of governance. NC leaders don’t want to step back even an inch from their stand on the parliamentary system of governance whereas the UCPN-Maoist leaders want a directly elected president.
UCPN-Maoist leaders argue that the parliamentary system has failed and they have fought 10-year people’s war to change this system and Nepalis in general have revolted against it in 2006, as the parliamentary system had given birth to a dictatorial ruler at that time; so, it is not acceptable to the Nepalis in general.
NC leaders say that a directly elected president could turn into a dictatorial, as the power would be concentrated on one person; so, the parliamentary system is the best one that has a zero chance of anybody coming out of it as a dictatorial forgetting how Gyanendra had grabbed the power in 2005, and Mahendra in 1960 from the directly elected government following the parliamentary system.
Leaders of the small parties have insisted on the NC and CPN-UML leaders to come to a common understanding on a system of governance that would be the most suitable for the Nepalese political and social reality rather than sticking to their ideology of a governance system.
