A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday demanding different orders on the ordinance about election of the National Assembly.
Senior advocate Gyan Mani Neupane has moved the SC naming the President's Office, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the three major political parties as the defendants. The SC has confirmed registration of the writ petition.
It has demanded an order to issue the ordinance about election of the National Assembly stuck at the President's Office. It has also demanded an order to instruct PMO to immediately appoint provincial heads, Election Commission (EC) to not announce final results of House of Representatives (HoR) before the issue of ordinance, and Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Center) to not put pressure to hold the ordinance.
Formation of the new government has been stalled as President Bidhya Devi Bhandari is sitting on the ordinance for over two months with the parties divided on whether the election for National Assembly should be held in Single Transferable Vote system or majority system.
The left alliance has been demanding that the EC should announce the final results of HoR and send that to the President’s Office before formation of the National Assembly. But all the other national parties including Nepali Congress (NC), Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJP) argue that the EC can determine the number of women each party will have to send to the HoR only after formation of the National Assembly.
The next government cannot be formed until the EC sends the final results of HoR to the President’s Office.
