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]]>The meeting was scheduled to take place at the Federal Parliament building in New Baneshwor.
The HoR scheduled the meeting in the afternoon.
The primary obstruction for HoR’s meeting is CPN-UML, which may try to block the meeting from happening.
The meeting was held before. However, it was interrupted seven minutes into the meeting as CPN-UML protested.
The political party, UML, accused Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota of splitting the party by not stripping 14 lawmakers of their offices.
The UML had previously boycotted the all-party meeting initiated by Prime Minister Sher Deuba. The all-party meeting was called for by the Prime Minister to wick away the parliamentary differences.
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]]>The endorsed ordinances are the Financial Ordinance, 2021, and the Ordinance on Raising Public Debt. The National Assembly undertook this effort amid protests by lawmakers. The protesting lawmakers arose from the main opposition party, CPN-UML.
UML’s lawmakers obstructed the session the minute the floor opened for discussion. But, despite their obstructions, National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Timilsina chugged on with the discussions regarding the ordinances.
Despite the UML’s opposition, Janardhan Sharma, Nepal’s Finance Minister, put forth the ordinances in the parliamentary upper house. After much ado, the ordinances were passed by the majority of lawmakers through voice voting.
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]]>The two-phase Nepal’s parliamentary and provincial elections 2017 was a three-way fight among the democratic alliance led by the ruling Nepali Congress party, the Madhes-based parties’ alliance called Rastriya Janata Party and the leftist alliance of CPN-UML and Maoist Center parties.
The counting results of the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) election of the Provincial Assemblies and House of Representatives of 16 districts, released on December 10, 2017, have shown victory for the communist alliance in 70 federal and 134 provincial constituencies with leading positions across 11 other federal and 20 provincial constituencies, so far.
Whereas, the ruling Nepali Congress has so far won 15 federal constituencies continuing the lead in another seven constituencies.
Meanwhile, the Madhes-based alliance registered 11 seats under the FPTP system.
According to the Election Commission, the FPTP electoral process saw election of 98 out of the total 1944 contestants.
74 of 165 parliamentary constituencies and 161 of 333 assembly constituencies have been covered with the FPTP results on December 10, 2017, informed EC.
New Laws for First Assembly Session
Meanwhile, EC has called for framing of new laws for the formation of the National Assembly.
“We are not able to begin the process of electing National Assembly members without laws governing elections of NA members. We want new laws to be framed as soon as possible,” EC Spokesperson Navaraj Dhakal said on December 10, 2017.
Article 93 of the Nepali Constitution requires the first meeting of the Parliament and the National Assembly within 30 days of the announcement of parliamentary poll results.
Meanwhile, Bheshraj Adhikari, Personal Secretary of President Bidhya Devi Bhandari informed that “The National Assembly Election Ordinance is being considered by the President. She will take a call on this as soon as possible.”
The National Assembly Members Election Bill is currently under scrutiny following a difference between the ruling Nepali Congress and the communist parties of CPN-UML and Maoist Centre on the contents of the bill.
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