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| Nepal Maoists refuse to form govt | |
| 2008-07-22 | |
| KATHMANDU: Nepal's Maoists have announced that they will not form the country's first post-royal government after the defeat of their presidential candidate. The announcement has plunged the country into a new political crisis. The former rebels' decision, seen as a blow to Nepal's peace process, came a day after rival parties in a constitutional assembly ganged up against the Maoists to elect a president allied to the main centrist party. "The party's central committee meeting has decided not to form the government under our leadership," Maoist spokesman Krishna Bahadur Mahara said.
But a vote on Monday saw Ram Baran Yadav from the Nepali Congress Party -- the Maoists' main rival -- anointed the country's first president. "After the presidential election, it is certain that we do not have a majority. So we do not have any basis to form the next government," said Mahara. The Maoists' continued involvement in mainstream politics is seen as crucial to the survival of Nepal's peace process, which ended a decade-long rebel uprising that killed at least 13,000 people dead. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 Give em a chance, folks. After all, Jimmy Carter sez they're "good people". And we all know what a good judge of people he is. Right? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-22 09:53 |