Maoist Centre releases voters’ name list to elect new leadership

Kathmandu : In order to select new leadership in the party, the CPN (Maoist Centre) Election Commission released the name list of 1,742 voters on Saturday.

Commission’s Chief Bishnu Pukar Shrestha said that the voters in the party’s general convention include members of the organizing committee, different departments, senior communist forum, advisory committee and leaders attending the general convention after the party unification process. The Commission said that the voters’ name list was released for the purpose of new leadership selection. Earlier today, the party’s statute was endorsed from the closed-door session of the eighth national general convention.

The draft was endorsed unanimously after leader Dev Gurung, who presented the document in the closed session, responded to the queries raised on the content. The new 299-member central committee would be elected from the mixed electoral system—50 per cent through directly-elected system and 50 per cent through proportional electoral system. The central committee would now nominate 15 per cent member of a total members replacing the earlier provision of 10 percent.

The general convention would elect a central committee and the central committee would elect politburo, standing committee and office-bearers. Politburo, standing committee members and office-bearers would be elected on the basis of inclusive principle. In the central committee, 35 per cent participation of women and 20 per cent of youth below 40 years is guaranteed in the Maoist Centre. ——