Kamal Thapa, chairman of RPP-N, submitted a list signature of his party lawmakers to CPN-UML Chairman Jhala Nath Khanal on Monday morning. Four lawmakers represent the RPP-N in the Parliament.
Earlier, Thapa had given verbal commitment to NC-UML-led alliance to form new government. The alliance has proposed senior UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal as prime ministerial candidate for the new government.
With this, the number of parliamentarians behind Nepal´s candidacy has reached 354 in the 601-member Constituent Assembly cum Legislature-Parliament. With Nepal Workers´ and Peasants´ Party that has 5 MPs also likely to back Nepal, Maoists will be the only party among the 24 represented in the CA that has not yet indicated its support for the UML-led government.
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