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Agreeing On The System of Governance
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 15, 2012: the local media have reported that the three major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML, and of UDMF: the alliance of the Madheshi political parties have agreed on the system of governance.
According to the agreement, the people will directly elect President, and the parliament elects the Prime Minister.
The parliament comprises 1) 311-memebr House of Representatives with 171 members directly elected and 140 elected following the proportional representation means political parties will appoint their members following the numbers of votes they receive, and 2) the 65-memebrs National Assembly with 65 members elected five each from the 11 provinces, and the 10 nominated by the president. The total members of the parliament will be 311+65=376
They have agreed on 11 provinces. Names and geographical boundaries of provinces have not been disclosed. They have set up a task force on delineating the boundaries of the 11 provinces. They want to leave the names of provinces to the parliament to find out the most acceptable ones to the majority of the people. Most probably, then the provincial assemblies will pick out their right names.
Some of the opponents have started off calling it a fake system. Others including the Vaidya faction of UCPN-Maoist have called a protest starting tomorrow.
The Nepalese political leaders have been under pressure of the international community to build a consensus on the contentious issues and then promulgate a new constitution as scheduled.
American Ambassador to Nepal Scott H. DeLisi yesterday called on Chairman of Constituent Assembly (CA) Subas Chandra Nembang to ascertain the latest position of the political parties on building a consensus on the disputed issues of a new constitution, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
American ambassador DeLisi has told the Chairman that all parties should work jointly to promulgate the new constitution within May 27 deadline; the American government was positive about the support for Nepal in her development process; the new constitution was essential for sustainable development in Nepal; the new constitution would help resolve the problems of Nepalese people and accelerate the development process, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
Similarly, Indian ambassador to Nepal had met with Chairman of CPN-UML a few days ago to ascertain the latest stand of the political parties on various unresolved issues of a new constitution.
Two members of the CPN-UML are joining the Bhattarai government after the political leaders have reached the deal on the system of governance and on most of the disputed issues. They are taking the oath of office from the Prime Minister in presence of the President tomorrow.
At the same time, widespread shutdowns have been going on elsewhere in Nepal demanding their separate identity. Every community has the right to demand its identity in a new constitution but none of the people has the rights to disturb the businesses of others, as it goes against the rule of law. So, the government needs to strictly enforce the rule of law bringing the perpetrators of violence of others’ rights to justice otherwise the country would have nothing but chaos.
