The Parliament Secretariat has published the schedule for the election of speaker of the House of Representatives.
The secretariat is preparing to conduct the election on Sunday, April 5, and has brought the schedule accordingly.
"In accordance with Rule 7 of the House of Representatives Regulations, 2022, the honorable senior-most member has fixed the date and time for the election of speaker of the House of Representatives to be held during the House of Representatives meeting scheduled for Sunday, April 5, at 11 a.m. Therefore, this election program is published for the purposes under sub-rule (1) of Rule 7 of the said regulations," the Parliament Secretariat stated in a notice.
According to the notice, the registration of nominations – proposing a member of the House to be elected as speaker – will take place on Friday. Nominations must be filed between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Parliament Secretariat will then publish the list of candidates at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.
If more than one candidate is nominated, the election will proceed on April 5.
On that day, once the House meeting commences, the proposers will present the candidates, and the supporters will second the motions. The secretariat said that the nominations will be discussed collectively and put to a vote in the order they were registered.
In the current House of Representatives, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) holds a near two-thirds majority with 182 members. The RSP has already decided to field party Vice-president Dol Prasad (DP) Aryal as its candidate for the post of speaker. This decision was finalized during a parliamentary party meeting held on Thursday.
