CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that the seat-sharing among the coalition partners will be finalized by Wednesday. The Maoist Center has claimed 60 seats. Speaking to mediapersons at the Dhangadhi Airport on Tuesday, Dahal said that the task force is holding discussions to finalize the seat-sharing. It will be finalized by Wednesday, he added.

Dahal said that the Nepali Congress has claimed 80 seats and CPN (Unified Socialist) and Janata Samajbadi Party have claimed 25 seats each.

He expressed his hope that the consensus would be reached around it. Meanwhile, he said that the leaders of the ruling coalition parties have been holding discussions to not extend the tenure of the House of Representatives. Dahal was of the opinion that the current Parliament will not exist after the nomination filing day. Earlier on Monday, the Election Commission had objected to a government’s move to extend the tenure of the Parliament.