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The Kathmandu Post 29 December 2017 STOP POLITICAL TUSSLE The country has almost entered into a federal structure based on the new constitution following the completion of three levels of elections. Elected representatives at the local level have now taken up their respective seats and started carrying out their responsibilities despite financial and human resource crunches. The formation of local level governments comprising the leaders of different political parties has been significant in terms of uplifting true democratic process. However, the services rendered by them in most of the places have not been effective in meeting the high expectation of the common people for different reasons. The ongoing political tussle between the Mayor Bidhya Sunder Shakya who had won the seat on a UML ticket and Deputy Mayor Hari Prabha Khadgi, a Nepali Congress (NC) leader of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) about the reconstruction of Rani Pokhari has been a worst example of misu...

The Kathmandu Post 22 December 2017 TIME WILL TELL The recently concluded three tiers of elections have been instrumental in the implementation of the new constitution and in giving Nepal a new, federal political structure. Some political parties performed extremely well but some could not perform as expected. Among the major parties, left alliance comprising the UML and CPN (Maoist Centre) was successful in winning the hearts of a majority of the voters. Nepali Congress (NC) was a big loser in both the provincial and federal level polls for a number of reasons. Also, the new political forces such as Bibeksheel Sajha were not entirely able to convince voters either- due to their limited political background or because they fielded candidates who were not as less popular. Now, the time has come for the left alliance to be fully prepared to lead the country towards peace and prosperity as per their promises made during the election campaign. The days ahead are full of chall...

The Himalayan Times 21 December 2017 Voters’ expectations After all the elections held successfully under the federal structure according to the new statute, left alliance comprising the UML and CPN-MC won the comfortable majority leaving behind the Nepali Congress (NC). Still, the official result under the Proportional Representation (PR) system is yet to be announced by the Election Commission (EC) based on the ‘Sainte-League’ system. However, the estimated number of seats under this system shows that the UML and NC are neck to neck in PR seats. It looks interesting while closely observing the polling results that the voters, who were tired of seeing frequent changes of government in the past, wanted to see the left alliance run the country for the next five years while NC sitting in the opposition. Now, the time has come for the left alliance to form a new government with able, sincere, committed and honest ministers with appropriate portfolios. The new government need...