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Election To A New Prime Minister
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 10, 2011: the parliament is going to hold a 17th round of the election to a new Prime Minister. NC leader Ram Chandra Poudel is the only candidate for a prime minister. Following the parliamentary rules and regulations a candidate needs to garner 50% of the total votes in the parliament in other words he needs to secure at least 301 votes in the 601-member parliament.
At the 16th round, Mr. Poudel could garner less than 100 votes not to mention fifty percent of the total votes. However, as a strategy to hold the election to a new prime minister indefinitely and let Madhav Nepal enjoy continuing the office of the prime minister, Mr. Poudel has stuck to the election shamelessly. This is the democratic process the so-called democratic NC has adopted.
Now, the NC leaders have started threatening the CPN-UML to pull the NC ministers out of the government if the legislators belonging to the CPN-UML do not vote for Mr. Poudel on January 12. Pulling ministers out of the government that has already resigned does not make sense except for showing the NC leaders are mad at Madhav and his party.
UCPN-Maoist and CPN-UML have already decided not to vote for Poudel in the election to a prime minister to be held on Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
Following the Supreme Court ruling, none of the legislators can stay neutral, they need to either vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’. If majority of legislators vote ‘no’ to Poudel, his party will need to pull out Mr. Poudel of the prime ministerial race if the NC has any moral left.
Pulling Poudel out of the prime ministerial race will pave the way for starting the election to a new prime minister afresh after the six and a half months of the NC holding the election to a prime minister hostage for letting Madhav to run the administration indiscriminately even after he has resigned from the office.
