Kathmandu, May 26:

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala today made it clear to the Maoist talks team that the path to the election to constituent assembly is not through “an interim regime” as CPN-Maoist is demanding.

During a meeting at the prime ministerial residence with the CPN-Maoist talks team led Krishna Bahadur Mahara, he also pointed out the impossibility of superseding the current constitution and having an interim one as demanded by Prachanda in his 10-point road map issued to the media on May 13.

Yet another issue that Koirala clarified is that the House of Representatives would not be dissolved until the date for election to constituent assembly is announced. Sources said Koirala told Mahara that Maoists would be welcome to join the government to be formed after elections are announced.

Koirala is also said to have also floated the idea of giving the constitutional monarch a chance to be retained as ceremonial entity if “there is definite improvement in the King’s behaviour in

the period running up to the election to constituent assembly.”

Koirala aide claimed that the CPN-M can be expected to trim the 10-point road map which also insists on a republican order.