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Legislative Branch Reform – 2014

Major political parties within the Constituent Assembly established the Committee for Constitutional, Political Dialogue and Consensus Building (CCPDC) with responsibilities to settle disputed issues in the constitution making processes. Former rebel leader, Baburam Bhattarai was elected unopposed as the chairman of the CCPDC on 25 April 2014.¹ One of the issues was the electoral system. In September 2014, the CCPDC submitted its final report, and the CCPDC was not able to force consensus among political parties on electoral system among other issues.². The CCPDC reported that the structures and the formation of the legislative body, formation of the upper house, and provincial parliaments were settled.³

In December, positive discussion among political parties was reported. On the issue of the electoral system to elect members of the legislative branch, it was reported that the parties are close to agreeing on a mixed electoral system suggesting a certain number of legislatures be elected directly and a certain number of legislatures based on proportional representation. However, the exact ratio is still to be sorted out.⁴

1. “Bhattarai elected chairperson of CA’s political dialogue comm,” Nepal News, April 25, 2014.
2. “CCPDC submits report to CA,” Kathmandu Post, September 13, 201)
3. “CCPDC submits report to CA,” Kathmandu Post, September 13, 2014.
4. “Parties in ‘positive discussionsÕ to settle contentious subjects,” Kathmandu Post, 11 December 2014.