Negotiating Nepal's new Constitution: What are the stakeholders up to?

<p><span>The cat is ultimately among the pigeons. As political parties, those elected in the Constituent Assembly (CA) and those wanting to see that Assembly vanquished, plan a National Political Conference to agree on new constitution, UCPN (Maoist) Chairman has thrown up the demand of all-party government. This is beautiful music to the ears of his breakaway mates in CPN-Maoist, who also seek a share in state power despite their boycott of November 2013 elections. This means, as soon as the parties enter constitutional questions, the power sharing issue will scupper the negotiations.</span></p>
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