Kathmandu, Dec 5 : A meeting of the five-party ruling alliance is convening at 3pm today to deliberate on the overall situation following the elections to the Member of House of Representatives and Province Assembly.
The meeting,
taking place at the Prime Minister's residence at Baluwatar, will make an
assessment of the election results as well as discuss other contemporary
topics, CPN (Unified Socialist)'s general-secretary Beduram Bhusal said.
It is said that
discussions will be held in the meeting on the formation of a new government as
well. The five-party coalition comprises of the Nepali Congress, the CPN
(Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), the Lokatantrik Samajbadi Party Nepal
and the Rastriya Janamorcha.
The Nepali
Congress has won 57 seats and the Maoist Centre 18 under the
first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system in the election to the House of
Representatives and Province Assembly elections held on November 20. Similarly,
the Unified Socialist has won 10 seats, the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party four and
the Rastriya Janamorcha one seat in the election.
The top leaders
of the Nepali Congress, the Maoist Centre and the Unified Socialist have said
before this that the new government would be formed under the leadership of the
present ruling alliance itself and they have held several rounds of discussions
to that end. (RSS)