Speaker Subas Nembang is likely to hold a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC) on Thursday morning to work out the details for the prime ministerial election.
"We will schedule three rounds of voting keeping in view the August 31 deadline of CA," Nemanag said. [break]
The political party leaders, who seem to have lost hope for the consensus government, did not hold formal meetings on Monday.
Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who supported Vice-chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai as the candidate for next prime minister from his party, has stated that the chances of forming a national consensus government are almost slim.
"Now the parties would take recourse to forming a majority government, instead one based on consensus, though there was strong likelihood of a consensus government," Dahal told a group of journalists.
According to Maoist leaders, the United Democratic Madhes Front (UMDF), a loose alliance of five parties, has assured the Maoists that it would back the Maoist-led majority government. "Now we are sure that our party will form a majority government backed by the UMDF," said Maoist leader Ganga Shrestha, who is close to Bhattarai.
He said the party has lost hope of garnering support from the UML and the NC, but added that behind-the-curtain negotiations are still on.
Maoist leaders say they are still trying to convince NC prime ministerial candidate Sher Bahadur Deuba to back Bhattarai now and become the prime minister of the government that will hold general elections later.
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