DELHI, India — Nepal’s president granted political leaders one more week to reach agreement on a new coalition government that would hold elections next year.
“The political parties said they were very much committed to having some conclusion or output with this next week," Rajendra Dahal, a spokesman for President Ram Baran Yadav of Nepal, said in a telephone interview.
Political leaders have been making such promises for years but have rarely managed to keep them. The immediate problem is that there is little consensus on how elections should be conducted, so none of the parties trust the other to conduct them fairly.
