KATHMANDU: CPN-UML leader Subas Chandra Nembang said his party had all the reasons to try and form a new government. He said his party would talk to all the parties once the EC submitted election results to the president.

"We have won more PR votes than the NC. NC won a few more FPTP seats but that victory was possible only because of the ruling alliance." But if the UML tries to form a new coalition, it will have to take the CPN-MC and the CPN (US) on board. That will be easier said than done, given the acrimony between the UML and the two parties - the CPN-MC and the CPN (US).

Both sides blame each other for causing split in the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) that had almost two thirds majority in the HoR after 2017 elections.

A version of this article appears in the print on December 9, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.