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Prime Minister Not Elected Even In the Seventh Round Of Election
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 09, 2010: the seventh round of election to a new Prime Minister held on September 05 has not elected a Prime Minister as both the candidates could not garner the simple majority required for getting elected.
Candidate of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has received 242 ‘yes’ votes and 110 ‘no’ votes. One hundred and fifty one legislators have signed off on the 'no vote' of the ballot papers. Altogether 521 legislators have participated in the voting. Ten members of his party such as Hisila Yami, Angdawa Sherpa, Chun Bahadur Thami, Tara Narayan Shrestha, Durga Kumar BK, Lila Devi Mehta, Bishwadeep Lingden, Satya Pahari, Hem Bahadur Shrestha and Mani Khumbu have not participated in the voting, and the party is asking explanations from them according to the myrepublica.com
Candidate of NC Ram Chandra Poudel has received 119 ‘yes’ votes and 245 ‘no’ votes while 151 legislators have signed off on the 'no vote' of the ballot papers. Altogether 515 legislators have participated in the voting.
The parliamentary Business Advisory Committee has set September 26, 2010 for the eighth round of the election to a new Prime Minister.
Repeated elections to a new Prime Minister have been good democratic exercises for all the political parties involved particularly the UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML. So, they need to continue doing the parliamentary business in the most democratic way.
Only the so-called leader such as Narayan Man Bijukchhe could recommend the presidential rule instead of the democratic rule. Mr. Bijukchhe is certainly for dictatorship. Given his political background it is not a surprise that Mr. Bijukchhe is advocating for the presidential rule. He is a fanatic of dictatorship.
The Nepalese media have made public the audiotape containing allegedly the conversation between Chief of Foreign Department of UCPN-Maoist Krishna Bahadur Mahara and a Chinese authority that Mr. Mahara asking for Rs 500 million for buying the votes of the legislators. However, Mr. Mahara has said that the audiotape is a fabricated one, and has denied any such telephonic conversation he has had with a Chinese authority.
The NC and CPN-UML leaders have demanded the government undertake an investigation into the alleged telephone conversation, and link it with the statement of Prachanda that has stated he will break the current political deadlock at any cost. The NC leaders have also demanded to link the tape controversy with the claim of Chairman of CPN-ML CP Mainali for the Maoists offering him Rs 50 million for the party’s votes but declined it causing a split in the party according to the myrepublica.com
China always follows non-interference policy, and has never intervened into PM election of Nepal in any form. The slanderous report about China funding UCPN (Maoist) is totally baseless-- Shan Yuduo, Chinese embassy spokesperson, the myrepublica.com reports.
India has taken note of the reports of alleged Chinese monetary interference in the on-going Prime Ministerial elections in Nepal; "New Delhi has taken note of the reports," sources said here on Monday, two days after allegations of a Maoist leader trying to buy MPs with the help of a Chinese "friend" surfaced according to the Indiajournal.com of September 08, 2010. In a telephonic conversation, the tape leaked to the media in Kathmandu, Unified CPN-Maoists' Foreign Department Chief Krishna Bahadur Mahara was purportedly heard asking an unknown Chinese official for Rs 50 crore to buy 50 MPs, apparently from Terai-based Madhesi parties that have been boycotting the polls. However, Mahara, in a statement, dismissed the tape as "fabricated, misleading and fictitious."
On September 09, 2010, US Ambassador to Nepal Scott H. DeLisi, British Ambassador John Tucknott and Charge de affaires of the French Embassy in Nepal Jean Romnicianu, have jointly met with Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda at his Nayabazar residence today, nepalnews.com reports. The three envoys have shown their concern over not electing a new Prime Minister even after the legislature repeatedly holding so many elections. They have also discussed the extension of term of the UNMIN. Chairman Prachanda has informed the envoys that the government has not consulted with his party at the time of preparing the official letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for requesting the extension of the term of UNMIN for four months. Before sending a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon requesting for six-month extension of the term of UNMIN with the existing mandate, and objecting to the government's letter to the UN for four-month extension of the term of UNMIN and keeping the Nepal Army out of its monitoring, Chairman Prachanda has met with the ambassadors.
