02-03-2011, 10:52 PM
Preliminary indications portended the 17th round would fail too, leading to two more rounds of sparring during the weekend.
However, minutes before the election started, the Maoists' standing committee held an emergency meeting to decide it would support Khanal. http://news.in.msn.com/international/art...id=4880520
The last-minute poll alliance between the communists and Maoists was flayed as "hypocrisy" and a "conspiracy" by Poudel, whose party had been a staunch ally of the communists in the earlier government.
Though Khanal's victory ends a seven-month-long crisis, it does not bode well for Nepal.
However, minutes before the election started, the Maoists' standing committee held an emergency meeting to decide it would support Khanal. http://news.in.msn.com/international/art...id=4880520
The last-minute poll alliance between the communists and Maoists was flayed as "hypocrisy" and a "conspiracy" by Poudel, whose party had been a staunch ally of the communists in the earlier government.
Though Khanal's victory ends a seven-month-long crisis, it does not bode well for Nepal.