A member of Nepali guerrillas talks team, Dev Gurung, expressed hope that the country will find a peaceful solution to the political problems as the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the guerrillas already agreed on the main political agenda of elections to a Constituent Assembly, The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.

Gurung was quoted by the newspaper as saying that both the government and guerrillas talks teams were doing homework to hold the second round of talks and considering appointing observers for the talks.

Gurung, however, accused the SPA of betraying them by intending to give continuity to the House of Representatives (HoR).

He revealed that the SPA and the guerrilla reached an agreement to dissolve the HoR once it announced elections to a Constituent Assembly.

The true source of political legitimacy, according to him, is the mandate of the people's movement and not the old constitution and the HoR.

But he said that the differences between the SPA and the guerrilla will be sorted out through negotiations.

Meanwhile, the Communist Party Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist central committee member Shankar Pokharel suggested that the SPA

and the guerrilla find a middle path between the alliance's stance of giving continuity to the HoR and the guerrilla's demand of conducting a political conference and forming an interim government.

Pokharel said the SPA and the guerrillas could be in a win-win position if an arrangement is made in which the decision of a roundtable political conference is subject to parliamentary approval.

He said parliament could be kept as a "sleeping institution" until elections to a Constituent Assembly, which could work as a functioning parliament until fresh elections based on a new constitution are held.

Source: Xinhua