Kathmandu, September 2
National Assembly, the upper house of the bicameral parliament, is electing chairpersons of all its thematic committees on coming Thursday (September 8).
The National Assembly Secretariat says the elections have been scheduled as agreed by the parties.
The assembly regulations have it that the four thematic committee members are elected every two years as one-third of the assembly members complete their terms in an interval of two years.
One-third of the lawmakers were elected in January to assume their positions in March. The elections were due since then.
The National Assembly has 59 members. As it is constituted as a “permanent” body, it is never fully dissolved. Rather, one-third of the members retire every two years and the next batch gets elected. The newly elected members stay in office for the next six years.
The assembly vice-chairperson’s position is also vacant, but the parties are yet to agree on the election to fill this.
