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Nepal parliament to make third attempt to elect prime minister
Aug 2, 2010, 6:45 GMT
Kathmandu - Nepal's parliament scheduled a third attempt to elect a prime minister Monday, with no clear solution to a stalemate between the two main candidates.
The 599 legislators were to vote again as Nepali Congress Party leader Ram Chandra Poudel and Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal each struggled to secure support from other parties.
Neither candidate garnered a simple majority in two attempts in June, after two key parties abstained from voting.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninists and the Madhesi Front of four regional Terai factions have been unable to agree among themselves which of the candidates to support. The two parties hold nearly 200 seats in parliament.
Nepal has been under a caretaker government since former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned on June 30, saying he wanted to make way for a national unity government.
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