Kathmandu, June 2: In view of the continuous obstruction of the Legislature-Parliament, the Parliament Secretariat has planned to initiate the election of the new Prime Minister on Friday after holding discussion at the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee.
As per the constitutional provision, President Bidya Devi Bhandari had urged the political parties to initiate the process of electing PM through majority votes at Parliament after the one week time for election of the PM on consensus expired without any result.
Although the Secretariat received the letter from President to begin the PM’s election process with majority system, the process could not be initiated due to the obstruction by the major opposition CPN-UML.
However, there was not any legal hindrance to the Parliament Secretariat to make public the notice relating to PM’s election without informing the Legislature-Parliament, said Spokesperson at Secretariat, Dr Bharat Raj Gautam. To discuss the same issue, Speaker Onsari Gharti has called the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee for Friday.
The Secretariat has planned to make public the election schedule based on the agreement on discussion.
As the UML obstructed the Parliament citing Bharatpur incident- tearing of ballot paper-, the next meeting of the Parliament is fixed for 4 June.
On May 25, President Bhandari, as per Article 298 (b) of the Constitution, had called the political parties to elect new PM within a week on the basis of consensus after PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal tendered his resignation on May 24.
PM Dahal resigned from his post as per the agreement with Nepali Congress on taking government leadership turn by turn. RSS
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