CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that his party does not support ratification of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact.
Speaking to reporters after the MCC Compact Compact was tabled in the House for ratification on Sunday Nepal clarified that his party will not support ratification. "We don't support MCC.
Whatever may happen to the government (sic) if the government tries to ratify it at any cost," Nepal stressed hinting that the party may quit the ruling coalition if the MCC Compact is ratified.
The next House meeting has been called for February 24 when the MCC Compact is expected to be discussed on the floor.
The meeting of top coalition leaders held earlier on Sunday agreed to table the MCC Compact in the House.
The then KP Sharma Oli government had registered a motion for ratification of the MCC Compact in the House in June 2019. But speakers Krishna Bahadur Mahara and then Agni Sapkota, both of whom won the last general election on Maoist ticket, did not allow tabling of the MCC Compact in the House even after registration of the motion due to internal dispute in the then ruling CPN.
All the parties in the ruling coalition agreed to table the MCC Compact in the House after a protracted dispute earlier Sunday. CPN (Maoist Center) finally agreed to table it concluding it alone cannot block it when all other parties in the coalition are ready.
Prime Minister (PM) Sher Bahadur Deuba had clearly told the coalition leaders that the coalition will end if it does not agree to table the MCC Compact.
