But despite weeks of negotiations, the three main political parties - the Maoists,the Nepali Congress, and the Communist Party known as UML have failed to reach a consensus on who should head a new government.

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Instead the shooting is thought to have been was caused by what the MoD suggests was "a third party or parties whose identities have yet to be established but who are not UK personnel".

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The former guerrillas, now a political party, have joined forces with three other parties, but their alliance is lying a very distant third (though it could tip the balance in a run-off).

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In the here and now, however, they govern as a team that the Tories and Lib Dems in Westminster might envy so closely, in fact, that other parties complain that they have established what almost amounts to a two-party administration.

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