The Nepali party alliance formed in Friday's prime minister election reached tentative agreement on Saturday to form a 24-member cabinet, local media reported.
Senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) Baburam Bhattarai said this while speaking to reporters after a meeting of top leaders of the coalition on Saturday.
According to him, the new cabinet will be named on Monday after Prime Minister Prachanda takes oath of office.
The CPN-M Chairman Prachanda was elected the first Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on Friday with support from two other allies, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) and the Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF).
Final decision on power-sharing would be announced on Sunday, Bhattarai said without revealing which other parties were joining the government.
Prachanda, CPN-UML general secretary Jhala Nath Khanal, MPRF coordinator Upendra Yadav discussed the division of portfolios on Saturday.
Earlier, the alliance had reached an understanding according to which nine portfolios would go to CPN-M, six to CPN-UML and four portfolios to MPRF. Few smaller parties like People's Front of Nepal, the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (United) are likely to join the government, local leading news website Nepalnews.com reported.
Source:Xinhua
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