<img width="1050" height="700" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637208f89c7e80680e0b5517jpeg.jpg" alt=""/>A civil society group has urged Nepal’s political parties to take action against <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/nepal-speakers-ipu-trip-slammed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">House Speaker Agni Sapkota</a>, who they say has continuously violated the responsibilities and expectations vested in him as Speaker.A day after the statement, and right on cue, Sapkota for the second time postponed by a week a scheduled session of Parliament that for Wednesday, 9 February. The suspicion is that the speaker is trying to block the ratification by the House of the controversial American-supported <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/editorial/just-do-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Millennium Challenge Corporation</a> (MCC) project.The row has <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-risks-split-in-nepals-ruling-coalition/">threatened to split the five-member ruling coalition</a>, with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress and the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) supporting it while two Communist party members of the governing alliance opposing it.The Maoist Centre and the Unified Socialists fear that Deuba may team up with the opposition UML to pass the MCC automatically leading to a collapse of the coalition. The alliance is important to the two communist parties because they broke away last year from the NCP, and are not fully ready for <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/editorial/think-nationally-vote-locally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">elections</a> this year. Read also: <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/maoists-backpedal-on-mcc-letter/">Maoists backpedal on MCC letter</a>, Nepali Times <figure><img width="960" height="639" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637208fb9c7e80680e0b5518jpeg.jpg" alt=""><figcaption>Anti-MCC protests at Maitighar Mandala and Parliament on Wednesday. Photos: MAIT MACHAMASI</figcaption></figure><img width="960" height="640" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637208fd9c7e80680e0b5519jpeg.jpg" alt="">‘It is the institutional and legal duty of the Speaker to facilitate the placement of all bills presented by the government before the House,’ the civil society statement reads,  accusing Sapkota of holding up ratification for two years. Sapkota, a close confidante of Maoist Centre Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal,  has used the UML’s obstruction of Parliament as an excuse to postpone house sessions, effectively blocking parliamentary discussion of the $500 million American-supported project to<a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/own-goal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> upgrade transmission lines and highways in Nepal</a>. Supporters of the Maoist Centre and the Unified Socialists on Wednesday staged a street rally outside Parliament in support of the speaker and against the MCC.  Disagreement within the governing coalition prompted Sapkota to postpone Wednesday’s parliament meeting, hours before it was set to begin, to 14 February. The US has said that the project needs to be ratified by parliament by 28 February, and the Chinese have been <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/china-lobbying-against-mcc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lobbying actively against it</a> – adding a geopolitical element to the row.While Prime Minister Deuba backs the project, his alliance partners Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Moaist Centre and Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Socialist) have been fiercely opposed to it.Read also: <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-row-damages-nepals-credibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MCC row damages Nepal’s credibility</a>, Ramesh Kumar <img width="960" height="640" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637209009c7e80680e0b551ajpeg.jpg" alt=""><img width="960" height="640" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637209039c7e80680e0b551bjpeg.jpg" alt=""><img width="960" height="640" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101120/637209059c7e80680e0b551cjpeg.jpg" alt="">The open letter from civil society notes that the Speaker has sought to evade the Constitution and relevant laws in order to exercise executive powers since the day of his appointment, even though Nepal’s parliamentary system does not grant such powers to the Speaker.“The main political parties must immediately take action on Agni Sapkota in order to protect the values and principles of the parliamentary system,” the statement reads.  Agni Sapkota was appointed Speaker in January 2020 even though he has been accused of <a href="https://archive.nepalitimes.com/article/editorial/state-of-impunity,2976" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">summary execution</a> during the conflict, with cases against him pending in Nepal’s Supreme Court.Sapkota was a central committee member and leader of the underground Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) in Sindhupalchok during the armed insurgency and said to be involved in the April 2005 abduction and subsequent killing of civic leader Arjun Bahadur Lama from Kavre district.  Arjun Lama’s wife Purnimaya Lama is one of the signatories of the appeal.The district police had initially refused to register an FIR on the case, until a 2018 directive from the Supreme Court to the Kavre police to investigate the case and submit monthly reports. Read also: <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/speechless/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Speechless</a>, Sewa BhattaraiThe open letter says the fact that Sapkota has continuously occupied high political positions makes it clear that the police have been intimidated while conducting investigation. “Influencing the police administration by virtue of his position of power … and by remaining an absconder on the murder case of Arjun Lama, Agni Sapkota is responsible for obstructing justice in the particular case and contributing to the general weakening of the law and justice system in the country,” the statement reads.The signatories of the appeal include Purnimaya Lama, Badri Prasad Bhusal, Bhagiram Chowdhary,  Indra Prasad Aryal, Kanak Mani Dixit,   Kedar Narshing KC, Maina Karki, Manamunishwar Acharya,  Rajan Kuikel, Sabitri Shrestha, Suman Adhikari,  Surya Bahadur Adhikari,  Sushil Pyakurel, and Yagya Raj Thapa.Read also: <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/14-years-after-conflict-no-closure-in-nepal/">14 years after conflict, no closure in Nepal</a>, Nepali Times

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<figure><img width="2211" height="1541" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101116/6372080d9c7e80680e0b54c7jpeg.jpg" alt=""/><figcaption></figcaption></figure>A much-delayed half-billion dollar US government project to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-row-rocks-nepals-ruling-coalition/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-row-rocks-nepals-ruling-coalition/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587117000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mPNK10b4Qti4kBCQ2ZqtY">threatens to split Nepal’s governing coalition</a>, amidst indications the <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/china-lobbying-against-mcc/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/china-lobbying-against-mcc/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587117000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3xLZatwKG1qUAKCvOP5DVb">Chinese have intensified lobbying</a> with politicians to oppose it.Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress (NC), a minor coalition partner Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), as well as the main opposition UML support the project. But it is vehemently opposed by two Communist parties: the Maoist Centre (MC) and the Unified Socialists.The strain within the coalition appears to have taken a turn for the worse after Prime Minister Deuba got wind that <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/nepal-speakers-ipu-trip-slammed/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/nepal-speakers-ipu-trip-slammed/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587117000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1748mrZsIq3zaEcjwoZOZ_">Parliament Speaker Agni Sapkota</a> of the MC postponed a sitting of the House on Sunday that was to discuss the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project.After a meeting of the five coalition partners on Saturday failed to agree on getting the MCC ratified by Parliament, Sapkota called off a scheduled House sitting for ten days without informing the prime minister.Deuba is said to be so put off that he has leaked a threat to register a proposal to unseat Speaker Sapkota, and has hinted that he will push through the MCC even if it means a split in the coalition.China’s Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi has been meeting various coalition leaders in the past months to lobby against the MCC, the latest was a one-on-one with the opposition UML’s K P Oli at his residence on 22 December.Then on Saturday, just after the inconclusive coalition meeting, the Maoist Centre’s Pushpa Kamal Dahal held an hour-long hush-hush virtual meeting on Saturday with Song Tao, the high-ranking head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC).Although the conversation was said to have centred around greeting each other on Chinese New Year and Dahal being congratulated for being re-elected chair of the Maoist Centre, the timing of the online discussion on Saturday evening is seen as significant.In November also, CPC officials had talked to senior party leaders in Kathmandu to actively dissuade them from passing the American project. The deputy head of the International Department of the CPC Chen Zhao had even called the UML General Secretary Ishwar Pokhrel on 13 December to try to change his party leadership’s pro-MCC stance. Zhao also spoke to Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Unified Socialists, and the latter is said to have assured him that he would not let the MCC be ratified.Speaker Agni Sapkota has been known to be close to Beijing, and has made no secret for his opposition to the MCC, and this week was not the first time that he blocked ratification in Parliament. His predecessor Krishna Bahadur Mahara, also a close confidante to Dahal, was also publicly anti-MCC before he was removed from office in 2019 after allegations of rape.   <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/is-china-now-micro-managing-nepal-politics/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/is-china-now-micro-managing-nepal-politics/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ZjFWwIUS-IjUQIDA_jTNV">China’s suspicions about the MCC</a> as being an American geo-strategic counter to its own Belt Road Initiative (BRI) can also be gleaned from Chinese academics who have been <a href="https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TgjzJv5skEkt6rjm9pyU8w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">writing in state controlled media</a> as well as in interviews with Nepali portals. Wang Yiwei of Renmin University in an op-ed in October called the MCC ‘American ploy’.Besides geopolitics, the MCC has also become a factor as <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/dance-of-democracy/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/dance-of-democracy/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2v7G-9XPUQE_b0yVvy5RP7">Nepal’s domestic politics</a> as parties try to position themselves for upcoming local government elections in May and federal polls later this year.Last week, Deuba managed to convince Dahal and Nepal to <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/nepal-coalition-dilly-dallying-on-polls/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/nepal-coalition-dilly-dallying-on-polls/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3bRn0dwVnuNcGvc5nNm05E">lift their opposition to holding local elections</a> on time in exchange for keeping the coalition in an electoral alliance. Although NC insiders say they also got a commitment from them to back the MCC, the two leaders have denied this.Both say they will back the MCC only “with amendments” to clauses in the contract that they say undermines Nepal’s sovereignty.For its part, the UML has obstructed Parliament for the past six months, accusing Speaker Sapkota of allowing a breakaway group from the Nepal faction to keep their seats.Amidst all this, Deuba appears to be losing his patience with coalition partners. He takes personal responsibility for having signed the MCC agreement during his previous tenure five years ago, and fears loss of credibility for Nepal from international partners if the agreement is not ratified.Sources said that in Saturday’s meeting, Deuba actually brought up the possibility of the coalition splitting if the MCC is not passed. Deuba is gambling that an electoral alliance with the coalition is important for the MC and the Unified Socialists, both of which have been <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/who-wants-early-elections-and-why/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/who-wants-early-elections-and-why/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3EuLUjhgdgtlUAmjsBpP1O">weakened by their split with the UML.</a>The UML itself is now playing coy, and K P Oli has made no secret of its aim to use the MCC to split the coalition. Deuba is determined to push the MCC to Parliament even if it means getting UML support, since the NC and JSP alone do not have the numbers to ratify it.UML Chair K P Oli was a strong backer of the MCC when he was prime minister till July last year, and it was in fact his erstwhile party colleagues Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal who <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-damned-if-we-do-damned-if-we-dont/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-damned-if-we-do-damned-if-we-dont/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2o4JhiHrU0WJYe66eGhiHV">weaponised the MCC</a> to bring him down. Ultimately, this led to their Nepal Communist Party to split into the MC and the UML, and the UML itself later split with Nepal breaking off to form the Unified Socialists.Having been so vehemently opposed to MCC, Dahal and Nepal can now not do a 180 degree on the project. And they also have to contend with the Chinese breathing down their necks.One of the more vocal proponents of the MCC has been former Maoist ideologue and ex-prime minister Baburam Bhattarai who fell out with Dahal and is now with the JSP.Bhattarai, who also has a PhD in urban planning, tweeted on Monday: ‘The MCC is a trial by fire for Nepal’s political parties, mainly the Communists. First: Will we try to balance the US and India and China or be beholden to one of them? Second: If we do not want American support, what will we do with aid from the WB, IMF or ADB? If an American grant is untouchable, how about aid from India, China or others?’ <img width="640" height="175" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221114101116/637208109c7e80680e0b54c8jpeg.jpg" alt="">The $500 million project was signed in 2017 when Prime Minister Deuba led a coalition that also had the Maoists as a partner in government. The Americans have denied that the project has any military component, saying Nepal qualified for it and there are no strings attached.Increasingly impatient with delays in Nepal and irritated with what it sees as Chinese obstruction, the Americans have sent a <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-row-rocks-nepals-ruling-coalition/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-row-rocks-nepals-ruling-coalition/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Io7kTRWitTQBFQcPJndxQ">slew of high officials to Nepal</a> in the past six months, who has also warned Nepal that project approval is time-bound, and the MCC can withdraw the grant if Nepal does not want it.The project will pay to expand <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/the-cost-of-no-mcc/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/the-cost-of-no-mcc/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3ftWPiTFZ8uZospptUy9b3">Nepal’s electricity grid</a> with a 400kVA transmission line to distribute power from eastern to western Nepal, as well as export surplus to India. Nepal’s <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/nepals-precious-electricity-going-waste/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/nepals-precious-electricity-going-waste/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2H55BAU4KQwQs8tcmB84xz">power producers could lose</a> up to Rs142 billion annually if the electricity lines are not built to evacuate the estimated 5,000MW of generation capacity by 2025. The project also has a component to <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/generating-electricity-and-cash-for-nepalis/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/generating-electricity-and-cash-for-nepalis/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643783587118000&amp;usg=AOvVaw212arRNKdVKZSYW2VBkCRW">boost economic growth</a> through improvements in highway connectivity in Central Nepal.

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MCC risks split in Nepal’s ruling coalition

<figure><img width="1286" height="1500" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221110141148/636d015a9c7e80680e0a3624jpeg.jpg" alt=""/><figcaption>Vice president of US Mellennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Fatema Z Sumar arrives in Kathmandu on Thursday.</figcaption></figure>Fatema Z Sumar, vice president of the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), parachuted into Kathmandu on Thursday amidst a <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/mcc-damned-if-we-do-damned-if-we-dont/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">firestorm of protest</a> against the project that threatens to divide Nepal’s coalition government.Together with her deputy Jonathan Brooks, Sumar over the next four days will be meeting Nepal’s top politicians who are for and against the <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/editorial/a-millennium-challenge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$500 million grant project</a> designed to upgrade Nepal’s electricity grid and highways. The visit follows Sumar’s written response to concerns raised by Nepal’s Finance Ministry on 3 September regarding the grant. The main objective of the MCC is a 315km transmission line between Hetauda-Damauli-Butwal, important for the distribution of the 3,000MW of electricity that will be added to Nepal’s national grid in the next three years. <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/from-the-nepali-press/why-there-is-no-foreign-investment-in-nepal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why there is no foreign investment in Nepal</a> , Nepali Times <img width="512" height="461" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221110141148/636d015d9c7e80680e0a3625jpeg.jpg" alt="">The discourse surrounding the MCC has been influenced by geopolitical rivalries between India and China on the one hand and between the US and China on the other, with Nepal’s political parties <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/editorial/knowing-whats-good-for-nepal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">weaponising the project</a> to undermine each other.Indeed, support for the MCC by K P Oli was one of the issues raised by the five-party alliance that led to his ouster in July, after which <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/deuba-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deuba took over as prime minister</a>.Two months later, <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/what-is-delaying-nepal-cabinet-expansion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deuba is yet to complete government formation</a>,  and support and opposition to the MCC is now threatening to undermine his governing alliance. The MCC is such a political hot potato that it was not even listed in the coalition’s common minimum program last month despite Prime Minister Deuba being for it.However, critics including his main coalition partner Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Maoists and Madhav Kumar Nepal of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Socialist) view the project as part of America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, and superseding Nepal’s Constitution.Sumar’s letter attempted to assuage both of these concerns, saying that the MCC is neither a part of America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, nor is it not above Nepal’s Constitution. However, the response added that the points previously agreed upon would not be subject to amendments, which did little to quell the growing protest, including street demonstrations. The delegation led by Vice President Samar met with opposition leader K P Sharma Oli on Thursday afternoon to discuss the project, and is also set to meet with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Finance Minister Janardan Sharma and Energy Minister Pampha Bhusal (both Maoists). <figure><img width="1800" height="1200" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221110141148/636d01609c7e80680e0a3626jpeg.jpg" alt=""><figcaption>The delegation led by Sumar met with opposition leader K P Sharma Oli on Thursday afternoon. </figcaption></figure>The MCC compact has clauses requiring that it be ratified by Nepal’s Parliament, and that the project be completed five years after the work officially commences. Nepal had committed to ratifying the MCC in Parliament by September 2019, but the <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/editorial/just-do-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">process has been deadlocked</a> by the feud in the ruling Communist Party of Nepal while Oli was prime minister.Lok Raj Baral, Nepal’s former ambassador to India, says that there has been unnecessary over-politicisation of the issue that has harmed Nepal’s international credibility."The opposition to the MCC seems to have been led by those in power who were also trying to stop the Arun III hydropower project," says Baral. “That the opinions of individual leaders dominate the discourse over official party decisions speaks to the selfishness of Nepal’s political leadership.”Former Prime Minister Oli backed the MCC after he took over from Deuba in 2017, but his main party rival Pushpa Kamal Dahal and dissidents from his own UML used provisions in the MCC that they saw as being anti-national <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/own-goal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">against Oli</a>.  <figure><img width="1800" height="1121" src="https://superdesk-pro-c.s3.amazonaws.com/sd-nepalitimes/20221110141148/636d01639c7e80680e0a3627jpeg.jpg" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>Now, with Deuba being Prime Minister once again, the debate surrounding the MCC is likely to put a strain on his ruling coalition, made up of Dahal’s Maoist Centre and Madhav Kumar Nepal’s breakaway CPN (United Socialist) which are opposed to the project.On the other hand, the Nepali Congress and another coalition partner Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP)  seem open to ratifying the agreement in Parliament, but they do not have enough numbers in the House for it to be successful. Deuba has been sending feelers to the opposition UML to see if it will back the ratification in Parliament. For his part, Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been saying that the MCC is a conspiracy to break the ruling alliance. However, experts see Dahal’s position on the MCC as being inconsistent and opportunistic. He went along with the project, and then <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/power-politics-delays-mcc-in-nepal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">weaponised it during his power struggle </a>with Oli."It should not come as a surprise to anyone if the ruling coalition collapses because of the MCC,” says political analyst Punaranjan Acharya, who adds that it is not Prime Minister’s Deuba’s intention to go against the agreement, but  that of the “so-called” communist parties in Deuba’s alliance. "The prime minister has tried to be transparent regarding the matter,” says Acharya. “The problem is with the double-dealing leaders of the coalition partners.”Former speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned from his position in 2019 following allegations of rape, said last year in a statement that he had been falsely accused for opposing the MCC. His successor Agni Prasad Sapkota has also blocked the MCC Compact for discussion on the House floor.Rastriya Janamorcha Party Chairman Chitra Bahadur KC, who is a member of Deuba’s coalition, says that the MCC will not be allowed to reach Parliament, and will not be ratified in the event it is presented before the House. “We continue to oppose the MCC, which is not even included in the coalition’s Common Minimum Program,” says KC.Constitutional expert Bipin Adhikari says it would be ironic if the MCC is not allowed to be presented before the people’s representatives in the House because of the political self-interest of the Speaker and other powerful political leaders.Other analysts insist that the political process surrounding the MCC should be moved forward in a way that the project is ratified in the House without breaking the coalition and without the party whip being applied.Read also: <a href="https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/using-the-delay-in-mcc-to-dissect-it/">Putting the MCC in context</a>, Jeevan R Sharma and David Seddon

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