Coalition partners to hold further meets on seat sharing

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Oct 3 : After submitting the final list of proportional representation electoral candidates, the ruling parties on Sunday resumed the meeting to discuss seat sharing for November 20 election to House of Representative and Provincial Assemblies for first-past-the-post electoral system.

Top leaders of ruling parties held a meeting with seat sharing joint taskforce members on Sunday at Prime Minister and Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba’s residence in Baluwatar and discussed the matter.

“We held the meeting today; the meeting ended without much development. We will sit again at 8.00 AM on Monday morning,” informed Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav after the meeting. His party is pressing other parties to give respectable share of seats saying it would otherwise quit the ruling coalition. Leaders are holding marathon meetings for seat sharing for long, but are yet to agree.

The NC, CPN-Maoist, CPN (Unified Socialist), JSP and Rastriya Janamorcha are in coalition.

The parties are under pressure to finalize candidacy as the Election Commission has scheduled filing candidacy for first-past-the-post electoral system on October 9. Leaders claimed they were inkling consensus. But clear message is yet to be received.

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