“SOLUTION BEING SOUGHT”
Disagreements between rival factions remain, although Sushila Karki, 73, Nepal’s first woman chief justice, is a leading candidate.
“A meeting has been scheduled for this afternoon with the president, the army chief, former chief justice Sushila Karki, our representative Sudan Gurung and one legal expert,” Nimesh Shrestha, who was part of the Gen Z protest, told AFP.
Karki has told AFP that “experts need to come together to figure out the way forward”, and that “the parliament still stands”.
Gurung, the youth activist, told reporters on Thursday that their “first demand is the dissolution of parliament”.
Paudel issued a statement to the nation on Thursday saying that “a solution to the problem is being sought, as soon as possible”.
The army patrolled the largely quiet streets of the capital Kathmandu for a third day on Friday, after the protests and nationwide chaos that included a mass breakout of prisoners.
“I was very afraid and stayed locked inside my home with family and didn’t leave,” said Naveen Kumar Das, a painter-decorator in his mid-40s.
He was among many ordinary residents of Kathmandu who took advantage of a brief lifting of the curfew in the morning to stock up on supplies.
Food stores, tea stalls and pharmacies bustled with customers after people spent days inside.
“It was a really tense time and we just stayed indoors,” said Laxmi Thapa, 32, on a motorbike as her husband filled its fuel tank.
“We came out as things have improved.”
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