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Passage of Resolutions in Nepalese Legislature
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Sunday late evening, November 04, 2007, the special session of the Interim Legislature was held in the parliament building in Kathmandu. Both the opposition and pro-resolutions legislators debated the two resolutions: 1) declaring Nepal a republic and 2) an electoral system for the proportional representation of all Nepalis in a CA for quite a long time before putting them to the vote.
NC legislator Mahesh Acharya said that the CPN-Maoist withdrew the resolution number one: declaring Nepal a republic in favor of the resolution presented by CPN-UML legislator Raghu Panta. In reply to the NC legislator Acharya, CPN-Maoist legislator Krishna Bahadur Mahara said that the CPN-Maoist did not take back the resolution but supported the resolution presented by the CPN-UML legislator Raghu Panta.
Then, the Speaker of the Interim Legislature, Subhas Newang put the resolution: declaring Nepal a federal democratic republic to the vote. The CPN-UML and the CPN-Maoist legislators voted for the resolution whereas the NC legislators voted against the resolution. The Interim legislature passed the resolution by a simple majority.
Then, the Speaker gave time to the CPN-Maoist legislator Krishna Bahadur Mahara to take back the second resolution if his party wanted. He did not do so. Then, the Speaker put the second resolution: an electoral system for the proportional representation of all Nepalis in a CA to the vote. Before the voting, President of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Pashupati Shumsher Rana took time from the Speaker and spoke about his party’s stance on this issue. He said that his party had been for the proportional representation of all Nepalis and would vote accordingly. The CPN-UML, CPN-Maoist and RPP legislators voted for this resolution whereas the NC legislators voted against it. Thus, the Interim legislature passed the second resolution by a simple majority.
The SPA and the CPN-Maoist leaders had spent 25 days on finding the consensus on the two resolutions. They did not disclose to the public what they had discussed, what they had agreed and what they had not agreed. They spent lot of their resources and the national resources for discussing the things that had not been fruitful.
