The parliament secretariat is preparing to reschedule the timeline as the CA´s Constitutional Committee (CC) failed to settle the remaining disputes in constitution writing within the given deadline and sought more time for the same.[break]
As per the latest CA calendar of events, the dispute resolution subcommittee under the CC was scheduled to settle all the remaining disputes in constitution writing -- except for the issues related to state restructuring -- by December 30, but it failed to accomplish the tasks. Similarly, the CC was given a January 5 deadline to endorse the subcommittee´s agreements and settle the remaining issues.
But after failing to resolve some thorny issues like system of governance, CC leaders decided to seek time until January 29. The CA meeting called for Friday is likely to endorse the revised calendar.
"As the CC has sought more time to resolve the contentious issues, we are planning to make adjustments in the timeline by squeezing the duration given for other tasks," NC Chief Whip Laxman Ghimire told Republica.
The speaker and chief whips also discussed ways to incorporate the report of the state restructuring commission into the CC report that is entrusted with preparing the integrated draft of the new constitution. As per the CA regulation, preliminary reports prepared by the CA´s thematic committees should be incorporated into the CC report.
"We have decided to constitute a committee to study and recommend solutions with regard to amending the CA regulations paving the way for the entry of the commission´s report into that of CC," UML Chief Whip Bhim Acharya told Republica.
Similarly, the leaders also discussed possible ways to deal with possible complications with regard to endorsing the articles of the new constitution by a two-thirds majority of the 601-seat CA in the final stage.
Article 70 of the interim constitution has envisioned that the bill of the new constitution shall be passed by at least two-thirds of the 601-member CA. The parliamentary party leaders of the political parties represented in the CA shall hold mutual consultations in order to reach consensus if there is any dispute regarding the preamble or any article of the constitution bill.
"We are planning to make some changes in this provision given the time constraints," said Acharya. "This, because we are not in a position to give 15 days for forging consensus on each article to be enshrined in the new constitution." As per the statutory provision, each article needs to be endorsed independently and the initiative for consensus at the level of parliamentary party leaders needs to be taken for each article.
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