According to the information posted on the parliament´s notice-board, the meeting has been postponed to Friday.[break]
After failing to elect a new prime minister even after 16 rounds of voting in parliament over the last six months, the major parties -- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML -- agreed to change the existing provision related to the prime ministerial elections.
The NC has said the amendment proposal should have a provision that requires voting for all candidates to take place at the same time -- not one at a time as per the existing provision. NC leaders have also proposed that the second round voting be conducted only between the two highest scorers, if no candidate gets a majority in the first round.
Though the CPN-UML is in agreement with the NC´s proposal about conducting the voting for all candidates at the same time, it has said all the candidates should be allowed to compete in the second round as well, unlike the NC´s and Maoists´ proposal to let the voting be between only two finalists. The Maoists for their part have proposed that voting for each candidate be tabled as a separate motion in parliament, in line with the current practice.
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