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UCPN-Maoist Preparing For A House Session
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 7, 2010: leaders of the UCPN-Maoist have started consulting with the small parties on calling a House session. The small parties have also been for calling a House session to elect a new Prime minister, expediting the peace process, and completing the writing of a new constitution.
The President cannot do anything without the recommendations of the Prime Minister. However, if one fourth of the legislators signed up for calling a House session and asks the president for calling a House session, the President have to call a Houses session within fifteen days of submitting such a petition following the Article 51 (3) of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007.
Article 51 (3) If, during the prorogation or recess of the session or meeting of the Legislature-Parliament, at least one-fourth of the total number of the then members of the Legislature-Parliament make a petition that it is expedient to convene a session or meeting, the President shall, no later than fifteen days, convene such session or meeting by specifying the date and time for the same, and the session or meeting of the Legislature-Parliament shall commence or beheld at the date and time so specified. Explanation: For the purposes of this Clause, the expression "petition" shall mean a document bearing the signature of the petitioner.
Officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal is in no mood to call a House session for obvious reason for continuing his status of officiating Prime Minister and grab everything possible even at the last moment of his stay in the office of Prime Minister. On his recommendation, the president has discontinued the ongoing House session on November 20, 2010 for introducing the budget for the fiscal year 2010 through the presidential order. The naïve President has simply agreed on what the Prime Minister has asked to do even though the actions have been against the democratic values and norms. Currently, Officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal has been holidaying in Brussels after Cambodia disregarding the urgent political business back home.
