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Parliamentary Election Rules Amendment Bill Passed
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 25, 2011: the parliament has passed the Parliamentary Election Rules Amendment Bill submitted to the parliamentary secretariat yesterday paving the way for not repeating the past numerous rounds of election to a new prime minister without success making the parliamentary mockery. The parliament has run 16 rounds of elections to a prime minister without electing a prime minister. NC candidate Ram Chandra Poudel has broken any sorts of records of any parliamentary election for running the race for the office of prime minister 16 times but not getting elected. To save the face from humiliation, Mr. Poudel and leaders of his party have said that they have adopted the strategy of holding the election to a prime minister hostage for bringing the UCPN-Maoist leaders to their terms.
According to the amended Parliamentary Election Rules, the parliament will not need to run endless elections and can conclude the election to a prime minister after three rounds of voting at the maximum. Following the amended parliamentary election rules, any candidate for a prime minister needs to score the majority in the parliamentary election. If none of the candidates for a prime minister can garner the majority votes in the first election then they run for a second round of election. Again none of the candidates scores the required majority votes in the second round of election, then the third round of election is held among the two candidates that have scored the highest number of votes. If none of the two candidates can secure the majority votes in the third round, too, then an election to a prime minister starts afresh.
Following the amended Parliamentary Election Rules, none of the legislators can remain neutral. This provision has been made in the amended Parliamentary Election Rules following the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nepal. The Supreme Court had ruled that staying neutral in the parliamentary election to a new prime minister goes against the Article 38 (2) of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007.
