Find ways to resolve political crisis

The national committee of the Fair Election Monitoring Alliance (FEMA) has expressed grave concern at the deteriorating political situation in the country which it holds is marked by escalating mistrust and confrontation between the government and the major opposition political parties, says a press release.

According to the FEMA leadership the present political impasse has put democracy to test once again. They maintained that some political programmes, including frequent hartals by opposition and efforts to thwart those by the ruling party are seriously disrupting the economic and social life causing untold sufferings and loss of earning of the common man and the nation as a whole. Because of lack of understanding between the government and the opposition, even the Parliament which is the vital institution in any democratic city has not been able to play its proper role. The resulting situation is indeed "unfortunate," they said.

FEMA national committee attributed the failure to the political parties to reach a solution which they described as "a tragedy" and appealed to concerned parties to work together for immediate solution of the crisis.

FEMA leaders have urged the government and the opposition to find ways and means for resolving the political deadlock and initiate fresh dialogue in this direction immediately. Such initiative should be made without further loss of time. "Democracy is a government by negotiation and compromise," it said, "constitutional and democratic path must be pursued at all costs," it further added.