KATHMANDU, July 20: Political parties are engaged in internal parleys ahead of nomination of candidacy of prime minister (PM) in the parliament Tuesday.
The largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) Unified CPN (Maoist) has called a politburo meeting to discuss party’s prime minister candidate and its possible alliance with other parties in forming a new government.
In the meantime, Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and vice chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai held a meeting Tuesday morning.
Both Dahal and Bhattarai are eying for the top executive post.
Bhattarai has already made it public that either the party chairman or he will file nomination for the post of PM.
Similarly, the second largest party in CA, Nepali Congress is holding an internal meeting to discuss strategies to get its PM candidate Paudel elected in the election to be held on Wednesday.
According NC spokesperson Arjun Narsingh KC, Paudel will file his nomination at around 3:30 p.m.
In the meantime, the CPN UML, third largest party in CA, is resuming its central committee meeting this morning at 11 a.m.
The party will decide whether to file nomination of its chairman Jhalanath Khanal for the PM election or not.
Similarly, United Madhes Front, an alliance of four Madhes-based parties, is holding a meeting to discuss their role in forming a new government.
The Front will come up with its decision on whom to support in the election of the PM.
The nomination for the PM candidate should be filed between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Source: http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=21235
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