Search continues for a consensus candidate!

June 4, 2003
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Kathmandu: The deadline set by the constitutional monarch instructing the agitating political parties to furnish their consensus candidate for the post of the country’s prime minister by Monday evening has already lapsed.

The fact is that at time of penning this story, one full day has crossed from the set deadline but yet the agitating parties appear not to have found a consensus candidate amongst themselves.

The reason is clear.

It is because apparently that several other political parties too have forwarded their names for the post of the prime minister and in doing so they have clearly sent signals to the agitating parliamentary parties that they too can’t be minimized in the race for the prime ministerial post lying vacant since full four days.

The agitating parties though appear adamant in having their own candidate for the said post, but yet wish that the other parties too supported their consensus candidate.

And this is what they are lacking till today evening.

This situation apparently has forced the monarch to reconsider his previous deadline who now thinks that the parties be allowed some more time until they arrive at a consensus for the post of the prime minister. Sources say that His Majesty in the meantime has been in “consultation” with the Chief Justice of the Nepal’s apex court and has presumably sought the latter’s views on how to proceed in deciding on whom the post should go given the petitions being sent to the palace in series from various political parties claiming the post.

Should this mean that the selection of the next Prime Minister will take some more time?