According to president´s personal assistant Lalit Basnet, chiefs of three major political parties -- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML -- along with the coordinator of the United Democratic Madhesi Front have been called for discussion.[break]
Sources privy to the development said the leaders were likely to suggest to the president to extend the deadline for couple of days as leaders from major political parties have intensified inter-party parleys in a bid to find a consensus prime minister to lead the new government.
As his repeated informal calls to chiefs of the political parties to reach a consensus on forming a new government yielded no result, the head of state had to issue a weeklong deadline to the parties to nominate a prime ministerial candidate in a consensus.
Irked by the president´s move, a cabinet meeting termed the president´s call as an unconstitutional decision. But both ruling as well as opposition parties have stepped up talks in a bid to garner support in their own fold.
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