KATHMANDU, Jan 2: In order to elect a new leadership of the party, the CPN (Maoist Center) Election Commission released the name list of 1,742 voters on Saturday.
The commission's Chief Bishnu Pukar Shrestha said that the voters in the party's general convention include members of the organizing committee, different departments, senior communist forum, advisory committee and leaders attending the general convention after the party unification process.
The commission said that the voters' name list was released for the purpose of electing new leadership.
Maoist Center likely to elect new leadership today
The party's statute was endorsed by the closed-door session of the eighth national general convention on Saturday. The draft was endorsed unanimously after leader Dev Gurung, who presented the document in the closed session, responded to the queries raised on the content.
A new 299-member central committee will be elected through a mixed electoral system — 50 percent through the directly-elected system and 50 percent through proportional electoral system.
The elected central committee will then nominate 15 percent of the total members replacing the earlier provision of 10 percent. The general convention will elect a central committee and the central committee will elect the politburo, standing committee and office-bearers. The politburo, standing committee members and office-bearers will be elected on the basis of inclusive principle.
In the Maoist Center, as much as 35 percent of the central committee members have to be women. Similarly, 20 percent of them have to be youths below 40 years of age.
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