‘Lack of security poses threat to Nepal polls’
Afp, Kathmandu
The United Nations says that Nepal's dismal security situation poses the biggest threat to crucial elections planned for later this year in the impoverished Himalayan nation. The country is due to go to the polls in late November to vote for a body that will re-write the constitution and decide the fate of the embattled monarchy. "The Electoral Expert Monitoring Team (EEMT) is of the view that the security situation remains the most serious threat to the electoral process," the UN said in a statement Thursday. Nepal's former rebel Maoists ended their bloody "people's war" late last year and have emerged from the jungles and hills to enter Kathmandu's corridors of power with five ministerial positions and seats in parliament. However, ethnic violence in Nepal's southern plains region has cast a shadow over the peace deal and has killed at least 93 people since January.
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