Parliament session ends; Speaker urges for stronger unity among seven parties

The special session of the interim parliament has ended following the voting procedure to decide on Maoist proposals on Sunday evening.

After the Maoists and the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) voted in favour of each other's proposal and amendment proposal on proportional representation system and republic, respectively - thereby ensuring that both republic and PR system were passed by majority through voice voting – the Speaker read out Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's letter announcing the ending of the session from 9 pm, Sunday.

The special session had been called on October 5. For nearly one month, parties engaged in formal and informal discussions to forge consensus regarding Maoists' proposal on republic and PR system but in vain. Consequently, the proposal had to be decided through voting.

"This special session took up serious discussions and witnessed a democratic process, which gave definite conclusions. This has strengthened and established the democratic process," Speaker Subas Nemwang said.

Speaker Nemwang, however, urged the seven parties to strengthen their unity in order to take the democratic and peace process on a definite path.

He, however, expressed happiness that the entire parliament showed support for the issue of democratic republic. nepalnews.com sd Nov 04 07

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