Here’s a real chance to fight graft and increase political transparency
As the euphoria of the peace accord dies down, the eight parties will be hunkering down to form the interim government. But surely in the back of their minds they are already thinking about where and how to find the money to fight the elections to the constituent assembly elections and, hopefully, general elections 24 months after that.
The parties have been out of business since October 2002, and their coffers have dried up. Apart from the NC-(D) and the UML, who made some hay during the royal sunshine, the others are pretty much washed up. Where do they make the money?
There are no new planes for the national flag carrier, the state oil corporation is itself haemorrhaging, and no big new development projects are in sight.
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