The meeting of the subcommittee under the Constitutional Committee (CC) on Friday could not take any decision on the recommendations made by an all-party taskforce as Nepali Congress (NC) parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Paudel did not attend the meeting.[break]
Dahal, emerging from the meeting, told media persons, “We have resolved all issues except a couple of them [contentious issues].”
But CA members from NC and other political parties refuted Dahal´s claim and said that the sub-committee instead decided to forward the recommendations to the CC for discussion. The CC is meeting on Saturday.
“We have disagreement even over the recommendation of the taskforce on the system of governance,” said an NC leader in the CC. The taskforce headed by lawmaker Laxman Lal Karna has recommended to the sub committee that a mixed system of governance, in which the president is directly elected and the prime minister through parliament, be adopted in the new constitution.
An NC leader told Republica on condition of anonymity that it would take some time to settle the issue as NC is against the mixed system of governance.
Karna said the taskforce has concluded that the issues of preferential political rights and right to self-determination should be settled while finalizing federal system.
According to him, the parties also differ over which constitutional provision should be specified as amendable and which not. The UCPN (Maoist) has maintained that all the provisions in the constitution should be subject to amendment whenever deemed necessary while NC has argued that pluralism and democracy should not be subject to amendment.
Dahal said the remaining contentious issues will be settled at the CC meeting on Saturday. If the Constitutional Committee fails to resolve all the contentious issues through political understanding, these issues will be finalized through voting by the Constituent Assembly.
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