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Never Ending Election To A Prime Minister
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 23, 2010: the fifth round of the election to a new Prime Minister has ended inconclusively today, as none of the two candidates has received 301 votes required for getting elected.
The candidate of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has received 246 ‘yes’ votes that are short of 55 votes for the majority required for getting elected, and 111 ‘no’ votes; the candidate of NC Ramchandra Poudel has received 124 ‘yes’ votes that are short of 177 votes for a majority to get elected and 243 ‘no’ votes, and 206 legislators belonging to the CPN-UML and Madheshi parties and other small parties have not voted either of the two candidates.
Prachanda can get elected if he can get the votes of Madheshi legislators but his party could not attract their votes despite it is meeting almost all their demands except for a ‘one Madhesh one province’. Madheshi legislators are certainly not for getting their demands met but something other than their demands they are for.
Ramchandra Poudel needs the block of votes of the CPN-UML and Madheshi legislators to get elected but his party is against meeting any demands of the Madheshi leaders, still majority of the Madheshi legislators is for voting him. Some of the legislators of the CPN-UML are also for forming a new government with the NC but the party has decided to favor the consensus politics that the NC is quite averse to.
