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Following a political stalemate within the ruling party the Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved the parliament endorsing the recommendation of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli.
On Sunday the decision to seek the disbandment of the House of Representatives was taken at an emergency meeting of the cabinet on Sunday morning only. The stalemate was over an executive order issued last week.
Nepal’s House of Representatives, elected in 2017, has 275 members. And the next general election in the Himalayan country was due in 2022. President Bhandari announced that the national polls will now be held between April 30 and May 10 of 2021, which is roughly an year before they were slated to happen.
“PM Oli was under pressure to withdraw an ordinance related to the Constitutional Council Act that he had issued a week before and got endorsed by President Bidya Devi Bhandari the same day,” a Kathmandu based newspaper reported. It also said that today’s Cabinet meeting was expected to recommend the replacement of the ordinance.
Following the Prime Minister’s recommendation to dissolve the House, and President Bhandar’s nod for the same, seven of his minister resigned from the Cabinet on Sunday. The ordinance to amend the Constitutional Council Act was introduced on December 15, and allegedly undermined the principle of checks and balances.
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It allowed the Constitutional Council to convene a meeting if a majority of its members attend it. PM Oli then held such a meeting on December 15 evening itself, according to The Kathmandu Post.
PM Oli’s move also comes amid a tussle for power with former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda. Both Prachanda and Madhav Nepal are likely to protest PM Oli’s recommendation to dissolve parliament and even move the Supreme court.
A little less than three years after he took oath as prime minister for the second time, Oli virtually morning dropped a bombshell on his rivals in the ruling Nepal Communist Party.
