Next door Nepal: A short-lived hope

Political instability looms again as communists and Maoists delay a merger

Written by Yubaraj Ghimire | Updated: December 30, 2017 1:11 am

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Political instability looms again as communists and Maoists delay a merger (Representational/Files/Express Photo)

It took more than two months, and a public spat, before President Bidhya Devi Bhandari would sign the ordinance for the formation of the Rashtriya Sabha, the first upper house of the parliament. While the ordinance paves the way for the formation of the upper house on the basis of the “single transferable vote system” and clears the initial hurdle in forming parliament and the government under the new constitution, it does not guarantee that the implementation of the two-year-old constitution will be smooth.