Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M)
chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka
Prachanda told party's central committee
member that the elected President
will exercise more executive rights
than the Prime Minister who will be
elected from the parliament, reports
Nepal News. The Maoist chairman
said that denying executive rights
to popularly elected president would
mean undermining the electorate. Arguments
that giving more executive rights
to the president would make him authoritarian
are illogical, Dahal said. Dahal has
also contradicted the news reports
on the boundaries of the federal States
as agreed upon. "The agreement
has been misinterpreted. The boundaries
of the provinces will be determined
based on the report of the CA's thematic
committee,” Maoist spokesperson Dina
Nath Sharma quoted Dahal as saying.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist
Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist
(CPN-UML) have said that the Prime
Minister will have more executive
rights than the President even as
the two will be sharing powers in
the mixed governance system that was
agreed upon by the three major parties
– NC, CPN-UML and UCPN-Mon May 15.
Meanwhile, the UCPN-M vice chairman Mohan Baidya, who leads
hard-line faction in the party, met
with NC president Sushil Koirala requesting
that his party should take lead role
in the constitution drafting process.
Baidya urged the NC leader to lead
constitution writing process by incorporating
the views of all quarters. In response,
Koirala also sought Baidya faction's
support in the process. Baidhya said
he informed Koirala that they have
differences on the agreement reached
among major three parties and United
Maheshi Democratic Front (UMDF) alliance
on state restructuring and form of
governance. | 
