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KATHMANDU: The ruling coalition partners, CPN-UML and CPN Maoist Centre, have finally reached an agreement on unification of the two parties and signed a seven point agreement on the modality of the unification.
As per the agreement, the new party will be named Communist Party of Nepal (CPN). The agreement further states that Marxism-Leninism will be the guiding principle of the party.
UML Chairman and Prime Minister (PM) KP Sharma Oli, Jhala Nath Khanal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Bam Dev Gautam and Ishwor Pokharel have signed the agreement on behalf of UML whereas Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, senior leaders Narayan Kaji Shrestha and Ram Bahadur Thapa have signed the agreement on behalf of the Maoist Centre.
The seven point agreement jointly signed by leaders of CPN-UML and CPN MC
The agreement has been signed on conclusion of the Party Unification Coordination Committee meeting held at Baluwatar this evening. Chairmen of both the parties had held several rounds of one-on-one talks prior to this agreement.
As per the agreement, People’s Multiparty Democracy (‘Janata ko Bahudaliya Janawad’ popularly known as Ja-Ba-Ja as propagated by late UML leader Madan Bhandari) and Maoism will be deliberated upon as the ideological lines of the party at the general convention of the unified party.
It is expected that KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal will co-chair the party in a bi-chairman system until the general convention and that both will take turns in leading the government.
(Photo courtesy: Pradeep Gyawali)
Likewise, there have been talks of major party units to be vertically merged including the committee members.
The seven-point deal
Unified party to be called the Nepal Communist Party
Its general convention to take the final call on the party’s ideology
Till then Marxism and Leninism will be the ideological stand of the unified party
The strength of the standing committee, politburo and central committee will be small
Oli and Dahal to take turns to become the PM and to evenly split the tenure
Posts of the president and deputy speaker of the Parliament will go to UML and speaker and the vice-president to CPN MC
Ministerial berths decided
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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.