By Our Reporter  The ruling coalition of the five parties has been unable to reach a conclusion regarding the seat-sharing in the November 20 elections to the House of Representatives and Provincial Assemblies. Their top leaders and the task force formed by them to divide the seats have been holding meetings every day for the past two weeks, and every day the meeting ended with a decision to hold the next meeting ‘tomorrow’, but still in vain. It was widely expected that they would conclude on Tuesday but did not. Why the ruling parties are failing to conclude? There are several arguments. But the main thing is the bargaining, especially the CPN-Maoist Centre which intends to prevent the Nepali Congress from winning majority seats in the House so it wants to give as many seats as it will prevent NC from gaining a majority in the new House. Likewise, the CPN (Unified Socialist) is demanding more seats than its actual strength. Bargaining for 100 seats by NC is natural because both the Maoist candidates and Madhav Nepal’s leaders will win the election only with the voters of NC supporters. If they contest the election without forging alliance, the Maoist Centre cannot win even five seats while the CPN (Unified Socialist) will win none. Besides the bargaining on the number of seats, the Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda wants to decide the name of the next prime minister which delayed the decision. Sources said that the parties had already divided seats and they were bargaining for the post-election PM as Prachanda was reportedly asking NC chief Sher Bahadur Deuba to reach an agreement with the PM before disclosing the seat-sharing deal. Deuba facing problems in managing own party’s candidates While Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is using all his strength to keep the present coalition by being as much flexible as possible on the seats of the House of Representatives, he is under pressure in managing the candidates within the party. The rival faction led by Dr Shekhar Koirala and leaders close to him has already warned of a revolt if the right and appropriate candidates are not selected. Koirala has said that he would seek a 40 per cent share if injustice was done in selecting the candidates. News reports have already been there that if Koirala feels injustice, his team will forge an unofficial alliance with UML, which means many candidates loyal to Deuba may face defeat. Again, within the establishment, more leaders are willing to contest the elections, and some rival leaders could inflict damage to the party if they feel injustice. And if the Koirala camp demanded a 40 per cent share, Deuba cannot undermine that as more popular and competent leaders are with Dr Koirala. If Deuba fails to manage the internal balance in the party, the election results may not come in favour of the party when Deuba is preparing to field unpopular leaders like his wife Arzu in the elections.