By Our Reporter Despite launching the ‘No, Not Again’ many of the senior leaders who were enjoying power for years have been elected this time. And they are likely to dominate politics at least for the next five years. From Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba to its leader Ram Chandra Paudel, from Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the CPN (Maoist Centre) to Madhav Nepal of the CPN (Unified Socialist), and from KP Oli to Subas Nembang of the CPM-UML have made to the House of Representatives. They have been at the centre of national politics for about three decades, and they are elected again. This means the politics will see no change. Instead, the politics will turn further dirtier after the elections threw a hung parliament in the centre as well as in provinces. When the parliament is hung, parties and independent lawmakers are likely to resort to horse trading as after 1994 when the erstwhile House of Representatives became hung. The lawmakers continued to switch factions causing the fall of one government after another. When leaders resort to gaining a majority to form a government, they apply different illicit methods to woo lawmakers, resulting in rampant corruption and other anomalies. People have not forgotten how lawmakers were sent to Bangkok or held captive in the hotels of Kathmandu in 1997 to save and pull down the government. Such repetitions are likely to happen again. Seven parties cross threshold Seven political parties have received enough votes under the Proportional Representation (PR) system to become national parties as of Wednesday. However, Madhav Nepal’s CPN (Unified Socialist) has failed to cross the threshold of 3 per cent and become a national party. If the party gets 15, 000 votes from three districts-Dolakha, Syangja-2 and Bajura where vote counting has not begun, it can become a national party. As per the results published by the Election Commission on Wednesday morning, parties of the ruling coalition Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre), parties of the opposition alliance CPN (UML), Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal, and the newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party have crossed the required threshold to become national parties. As stated in Section 52 of the Political Parties Act 2017, only those parties who win at least one seat under the First-Past-The-Post system and get a minimum of 3 per cent of the total votes counted under the Proportional Representation system in the election for the House of Representatives will be recognised as national parties. So far, only the six aforementioned have met these criteria. Of the seven parties, UML got the highest votes under PR category. It got 26,94124 while Nepali Congress received 25,48, 778 and the Maoist Centre 11,43503. Similarly, Rastriya Swatantra Party got 10,98171, Rastriya Prajatantra Party 570,102, Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal 3,88,482 and Janamat Party of CK Ruat 3,46,970. The CPN (Unified Socialist) is trying to meet the threshold with 2,81,348 votes.