KATHMANDU: The Supreme Court Bar Association has criticized President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Oli claiming that their latest political moves have made a mockery of the democratic system.
Issuing a press statement on behalf of SC Bar on Friday, Bar Secretary Rishi Ram Ghimire stated that the President and the Council of Ministers do not have the right to decide whether the Prime Minister ought to receive a vote of confidence or not.
“The President’s remark that there was no ‘substantial difference in the political situation as in May 10 (the day UML Chairman Oli was reappointed as a PM from the largest political party in the parliament) is faulty and against the spirit of competitive multiparty democracy envisioned by the Constitution,” Ghimire wrote in the statement, adding, “This has made a mockery of the multiparty democratic system and the spirit of the constitution.”
The association argued that the right to decide a vote of confidence belongs to the House of Representatives and the political parties having their representatives in the parliament.
The Supreme Court has claimed that since the House of Representatives has the right to decide whether to grant the vote of confidence or not, the President and the Council of Ministers have conspired to deprive them (people’s representatives) of exercising it.
Bar has concluded that the process of appointing the Prime Minister in accordance with Article 76 (5) has been started in a fraudulent manner.
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