Briefing the mediapersons soon after the meeting at the UML´s Parliamentary Party office in Singha Durbar, NC´s Krishna Prasad Sitaula said the UML was "positive" on his party´s request to form the government under the latter´s leadership. "We told the UML that it was not prudent to prolong the deadlock since it was not possible to form a consensus government," he further said. "Instead of holding the elections time and again, we suggested finding a way out." [break]
Four rounds of election have failed to elect the prime minister. UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and NC´s vice president Ram Chandra Poudel are vying for the top executive post.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned on June 30 and his government has been reduced to a caretaker status since.
No one from the UML spoke to the mediapersons.
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