Deuba struggles to expand Cabinet, more so by issues in his own party Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, July 21 As Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba begins consultations to expand his five-member Cabinet, he faces an uphill task with demands and complexities of the constituencies that supported him during the confidence vote in Parliament on Sunday.
The 165 lawmakers that voted for him belong to a disparate group.
Besides the Nepali Congress, lawmakers from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), the two factions of the Janata Samajbadi Party that has more or less split, a section of the main opposition CPN-UML, and Rastriya Janamorcha supported Deuba.
2021-05-10 15:06:04 GMT2021-05-10 23:06:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KATHMANDU, May 10 (Xinhua) Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli lost the vote of confidence in the House of Representatives on Monday, opening door for the formation of a new government more than three years after he became the executive head of the nation.
Against 136 needed to win the vote of confidence in the House with 271 lawmakers, Oli just managed to garner 93 votes. The lawmakers from Madhav Nepal faction (UML) within his party CPN-UML did not vote for him and abstained from the voting process.
The CPN-UML has 121 seats in the House of Representatives which is short of 15 votes to win the vote of confidence in the parliament. However, despite the party whip to vote in favour of the vote of confidence motion, the lawmakers from the UML faction, with 28 votes, did not stand for Oli due to the escalated feud within the party.
Suraj Ray, law student at Nepal Law Campus, Tribhuwan University, Nepal, discusses the state-sponsored impunity awarded in Nepal with respect to the criminal justice system.
One of the latest achievements of the criminal justice system is the acceptance of repentance, serf-reformation, and reconciliation, drifting from the classical concept of strict punishment as a measure against crime. The concept of providing amnesty emerged in the past as a means to correct any error in the judgment of courts, is now practiced as a reformative justice system. Accordingly, the provides the President with the power to grant pardons, suspend, commute or remit any sentence passed by any Court, judicial or quasi-judicial body, in accordance with the law. Similar practices have been observed in several countries. However, the power conferred by the constitution is being misused by the government resulting in state-sponsored impunity, thereby threatening the rule of law.