According to sources at the parliament secretariat, Speaker Subas Nembang is likely to hold a vote on Tuesday, but he will take a formal decision in this regard after holding a meeting of the parliamentary Business Advisory Committee (BAC). [break]
On the first day of the meeting, Speaker Subas Nembang will read out the letter of President Dr Ram Baran Yadav summoning the winter session, and wrap up the House business for the day in memory of the lawmaker from the CPN-UML Dambar Khadka who was recently killed in a motorbike accident in Bhaktapur .
According to Nembang, the voting on Tuesday will either elect the only prime ministerial candidate Ram Chandra Poudel or scrap his candidacy altogether.
As the CPN-UML and the UCPN (Maoist) have already decided to vote against Poudel, a majority of votes is likely to be cast against the latter´s candidacy. NC has stated that Poudel would terminate his candidacy the next day if a majority votes are cast against him.
Then, the parties would begin negotiations for government formation before beginning another round of voting to elect a new prime minister. The parliament has already held sixteen rounds of voting since last July to elect a new prime minister.
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