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By Our Reporter

After the successful holding of the local-level by elections on December 1, the political parties are running their activities concentrating on the general elections of 2027.

The by-elections threw an encouraging message for the CPN (Maoist Centre) as the party had three more seats than those owned by it in 2022 local level poll. It won 11 of the 44 vacant seats while it had won only eight in 2022. The CPN-UML won eight, one more than it had won in 2022 and NC won 19 while it had won 27 two years ago. Although the Nepali Congress was the biggest loser, it won the highest number of seats.

A few days after the poll results were made public, UML held a meeting and reviewed the results concluding that the party’s popularity was waning in the urban areas.

Despite not retaining all seven wards it had previously secured in the 2022 local elections, the party managed to win eight positions, including chair and vice-chair posts, which the meeting described as an additional achievement.

The party said the results in Kirtipur Municipality and Kathmandu-16 were disappointing for it.

The party concluded that further efforts were necessary to strengthen its connection with voters in urban areas. Likewise, NC held a Koshi Provincial conference after the poll, while CPN (Maoist Chair) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been highlighting the progress made in the by-elections by the party in each of his addresses claiming that the party was heading to achieve success it got in 2008 Constituent Assembly election, in which it had emerged the largest party.  Maoist Centre had intensified its activities to welcome leaders from other parties into it by offering them important responsibilities