Himalayan News Service
Kathmandu, February 20
The CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist Centre, which have decided to unify their parties may not get the name of ‘Communist Party of Nepal’, as such a party already exists in the Election Commission’s list.
The UML and CPN-MC yesterday signed a seven-point deal to unify the two parties and decided to name the new party ‘Communist Party of Nepal’.
The Rishi Ram Kattel-led ‘Communist Party of Nepal’ is already registered with the EC and has contested the provincial and parliamentary elections with the election symbol of spade and hammer.
Likewise, Netra Bikram Chand also leads the ‘Communist Party of Nepal’, but he has not registered the party with the EC.
Section 6 of the Act related to political parties has provisioned that a new party with the same name cannot be registered if a party is already registered with same name and same election symbol.
EC Spokesperson Navaraj Dhakal said that the poll panel would not register a new party with the same name if a party already exists with the EC. He, however, said the poll panel could register a party with the same name if a comma or full stop is different from the other party.
Dhakal said the EC would officially comment on the party’s name after the unified party came to register the new party.
The election body did not register the Rastriya Janata Party and provide an umbrella election symbol to Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal, as the name of the party and election symbol was already registered with the EC.
The RJP-N included Nepal in the party’s name and got an umbrella inside a circle as the poll symbol.
A version of this article appears in print on February 21, 2018 of The Himalayan Times.
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Líder do Partido Marxista-Leninista e Primeiro Ministro Khadga Prasad Oli

Os dois maiores partidos comunistas no Parlamento nepalês chegaram a um acordo para se unirem na segunda-feira, depois de longas negociações na cidade de Baluwatar.

Os partidos comunistas marxistas-leninistas e maoístas, o primeiro e o terceiro maiores partidos na Câmara dos Representantes do Nepal, respectivamente, já foram parceiros da coalizão. Combinados, as duas partes serão dez assentos de uma maioria de dois terços, o que lhes permitiria alterar a constituição. O acordo deles assume a forma de um acordo de sete pontos.

Em primeiro lugar, os líderes das duas partes dividirão igualmente o termo primordial. Em segundo lugar, embora um acordo geral tenha sido alcançado, o detalhe da plataforma do partido será decidido em uma convenção do partido juntado. Além disso, eles planejam chamar o partido do Partido Comunista do Nepal, embora a viabilidade disso tenha sido questionada porque já havia um partido sob esse nome.

Os maoístas só entraram na política em 2007. Antes de um acordo de paz em 2006, fez do Nepal um estado totalmente democrático, os maoístas lutaram em uma insurgência armada para derrubar a monarquia.