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[Nepal] - EC yet to choose presidential poll dates

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Gajurel likely to be chosen for vice-president Presidential elections by February 11: EC The constitution specifies that the president and the vice-president will have five-year period, whereas the pertinent law says that the governmental elections ought to be held one month prior to the regard to the president and vice president ends. Article 63 of the constitutional stipulates that the regard to the Office of the President shall be five years from the date on which s/ he is elected.Article 63 (2) states that the president, whose term of office under stipulation (1) has actually expired, shall continue to discharge functions under this constitution up until another chosen president presumes his orher office.

Section 4 of the act related to the President and Vice-president Electoral Act, 2017, specifies that the Election Commission will appoint date for the election of the president and the veep at least one month prior to their period ends.President Bidhya Devi Bhandari assumed the highoffice on 14 March 2018 and Vice-president Nanda Bahadur Pun took the oath of office and secrecy on 19 March 2018.

Election Commissioner Ishwari Paudyal stated if the EC followed the President and Vice-president Electoral Act, then it would have to hold the governmental election before February 11.

Inthat case, the constitutional arrangement will not be honoured due to the fact that the constitution stipulates that the president and the vice-president will have a tenure of 5 years.

Paudyal said the EC would consult the federal government to talk about changes to the act associated to Election ofPresident and Vice-president in order to hold elections around March 13 and 18 when the period of the president and the vice-president would end, respectively.Joint General Secretary of the Nepali Congress and HoR member Badri Prasad Pandey told mediapersons after the conference that ifthere were disparities in between the relevant act and the constitution, the act should be changed and the EC and the government should work in a collaborated way to attend to the concern.

He said the new president and vice-president should be elected before March 13 so that they could assume workplace on the day the tenure of the incumbent president and veep would end.As per the constitution, the president will be chosen by an electoral college including members of the federal Parliament and members of the provincial assemblies.

The ballot weightage of the members of the federal Parliament and of the provincial assemblies will differ as attended to in the federal law.Article 70 of the constitution stipulates that the president and the vice-president ought to be from different genders or communities.The EC to consult the govt as provisions of the relevant law oppose constitutionA variation of this short article appears in the print on January 24, 2023, of The Himalayan Times .

This short article very first appeared/also appeared in https://thehimalayantimes.com




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