Prime Minister (PM) Sher Bahadur Deuba has called an all-party meeting at 11 Friday morning to end the current political stalemate. Senior media expert to the PM Govinda Pariyar confirmed that the meeting will be convened at the PM's residence in Baluwatar.
Only five parties that managed to become a national party through the recent parliamentary elections have been invited for the meeting. The parties include CPN-UML, NC, CPN (Maoist Center), Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJP) and Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN). The parties must win at least one seat in the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system and secure at least three percent popular votes in the proportional representation (PR) system to become a national party.
The meeting has been called at a time when the left alliance and Nepali Congress (NC) are divided about the process of forming the next government. The left alliance has been demanding that the Election Commission (EC) should announce the final results of House of Representatives (HoR) and send that to the President’s Office before formation of the National Assembly.
The government and NC insist that the EC can determine the number of women each party will have to send to the HoR only after formation of the National Assembly.
The next government cannot be formed until the EC sends the final results of HoR to the President's Office.
