Nepal is heading towards the election. Nepal has just completed its local election 5 month ago and now Nepal is heading towards the Parliament and provincial election. In this blog I am going to share some information regarding the Parliament election.
There are total 275 seats in Parliament of Nepal. Among it 60% i.e 165 people are selected from first past the post method. It means 165 people will be selected directly by people's vote. And remaning 40% i.e 110 people are selected through proportionate system i.e the party which get highest vote will choose itself whom to give the seat.
According to Nepalese constitution, the common people cannot vote for the Prime Minister directly. Only the members of parliament has such power . To become the Prime Minister, One must get atleast 50% i.e 138 seats.
Present Scenario For 2079 Election
In the election of 2074, two big communist party CPN UML(Lead by K.P Oli) and CPN maoist-center(Lead by Puspha kamal Dahal) , have allianced and had a comprehensive win. But due to some political reasons this allianced was broked and the CPN(Maoist-center) had made another alliance with Nepali Congress and other parties. And same alliance is going together for the upcoming election.
In this election many independent candidate have given their candidacy. Even new parties are expected to win a lot of seats. Their will be a lot of competition to watch out for. For eg In morang-6, Dr Shekhar Koirala of Nepali Congress will be facing Lal Babu Pandit of CPN UML, In kathmandu-4, Gagan Thapa will be facing with Rajan bhatrai, In laltipur-3, Pampha Bhushal of CPN maoist-center will be facing Toshima Karki.
The CPN UML has already informed that K.P Oli will become the Prime Minister if CPN UML wins. But the alliance party are still unable to decide who will become the Prime Minister. However a lot of Member of the alliance have shown the interest to become Prime Minister. Gagan Thapa of Nepali congress, Sher bhadur Deuba of Nepali congress, Pushpa Kamal Dahal of CPN (Maoist-center), Shekhar Koirala from Nepali congress, Madhav kumar Nepal from CPN (Unified Socialist) etc. have shown their interest to become Prime Minister through various social media platforms and interviews. The interest of big leaders for the same post might not be favorable for the alliance party. It would be interesting to see what step will the alliance party take. Some of the intelligence have even predicted that the alliance will be broken after the end of the election.
