“Whenever politicians failed in power in the past, they had populist slogans in their hand to divert the attentions: changing the constitution. Without facing any problems, politicians had scrapped previous five constitutions and the current interim constitution is already going…
Populism in constitution making is not a new phenomenon. Hardly any systematic study exists in this area. But this phenomenon exists, and exists in the most powerful sense. Nepal is definitely going through this process. The latest case in point…
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It is already about five months that the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA), on 28 May 2008, to abolish monarchy and declare the country a republic, was held. The Assembly is functionally without job since then. There does…
The recent assertion of Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal that Nepal will neither adopt a complete communist system of governance nor will it accept the system of parliamentary democracy within its traditional parameters has surprised many critiques about his intentions.…
Disagreements over two major issues are said to be obstructing the passage of the draft Constituent Assembly Rules of Procedure. The first relates with the appropriate size of the proposed Constitution Drafting Committee and the second with the issues that…
Nepal has been declared a federal state by the Interim Constitution. Although this does not establish ethnicity as the fundamental principle of the federal system of government that Nepal is going to adopt, there is a strong possibility that ethnicity…
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(Excerpts of a paper presented at a forum jointly organized by the Consortium of Constitutional Experts (CONCOE) and Tribhuvan University Faculty of Law, Kathmandu, August 25, 2008) The President of Nepal is the head of the newly established republic. In…
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