Election Commission: Maoist Centre is still legitimate
The Election Commission has decided that the CPN-Maoist Centre's legitimacy has not ended now as claimed by some of its previous leaders who defected to the CPN-UML recently.
KATHMANDU: The CPN (Maoist Centre) has decided to run its organizational campaign targeting the upcoming federal and provincial assembly elections. The government is preparing to hold both elections in the coming November. The CPN (Maoist Centre) has started its internal preparation for the same at a time when the Election Commission and government have already […]
Following the Supreme Court's decision, the Election Commission has reinstated the unified CPN-UML and NCP (Maoist Centre) to their individual status.
Issuing a press statement on Tuesday regarding the decisions taken by the Commission in order to implement the SC's order dated March 7, the EC said, "In line with the Top Court's decision, the Commission has decided to regard the unified Nepal Communist Party as separate parties like they were prior to June 6, 2018." The EC has decided to publish the same in Nepal Gazette.
A group of former CPN-Maoist Centre leaders who had defected to the CPN-UML in the changed political context of late have demanded that the Election Commission scrap the registration of their former party.
KATHMANDU, May 17: Following a decision to unite, CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli and CPN (Maoist Centre) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal went to the Election Commission today and filed an application for registration of the 'Communist Party of Nepal'.
