From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:39:01 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal: Mainstream CPs to reunite KOL. 31 December 2001. CPN-UML, ML set to reunite. KATHMANDU -- Nearly three years after splitting into two independent parties, the main opposition CPN-UML and the breakaway group CPN-ML are set to reunite. Top leaders of the two parties have been holding marathon talks in the past two weeks to reunite the two parties within the next three months. CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal played host to the first meeting while CPN-ML General Secretary Bam Dev Gautam’s house will be the venue for the meeting planned in the next few days. Party leaders, talking on the condition of anonymity, told Kantipur Online that both the parties have learnt the lesson from the split. CPN-ML was wiped out in the parliamentary election while CPN-UML lost a good portion of its cadre base and support. A proposal is being considered which would give CPN-ML a third of the strength in the united party. From the powerful Central Committee to the grassroots village committees, CPN-ML would get a third of the seats and not the 40 percent as demanded by them. A 40 percent strength in the united party would still give the CPN-ML people an option to split once again. Regulations require that if a group within a party wants to split then they need to have the support of at least 40 percent of the central committee. The reunification is expected to take place before the seventh General Convention of the party slated in less than a year. The talks of reunification has been possible due to the present situation and some flexibility shown by CPN-UML leadership, the leaders said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
