June 2, 2008
Power Struggle between Maoists and Nepali Congress
Nepal went back to work on Sunday as government offices and schools opened for the first time since the celebrations following the opening of the Constituent Assembly on April 28. 
But already Nepal's leading political parties are locked in a power struggle. They have agreed to have a symbolic president and a powerful prime minister in the new republican system. But the centrist Nepali Congress, the second biggest group in the assembly, say the Maoists are demanding too much. "They can't have both the posts of a prime minister and the president at the same time," said Ram Chandra Poudel, a senior leader of the Nepali Congress.
