Nepali Congress (NC) on June 8 rejected the executive presidential system, reports Kathmandu Post. NC senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel expressed his dissatisfaction and rejected Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Co-Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal suggestion that Nepal should adopt the directly elected executive presidential system. He said “Prachanda tries to trigger political debate by talking about the directly elected executive presidential system. Political debate will stop the country from development.” Paudel warned that democracy would be at stake if the party with two-thirds majority talks about the directly elected executive presidential system. Nepal has promulgated the best constitution; he said and stressed the need of taking the country on the path of prosperity by implementing the constitution.
Earlier, as the Government now holds a two-thirds majority in the Parliament, enough to amend the constitution, NCP Co-Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is preparing to make the idea of directly-elected executive part of the national political discourse, reports The Himalayan Times. The idea has already become a common agenda of the ruling parties - the NCP and the Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal (FSF-N) - which are of the view that just two-thirds majority will not ensure political stability. The FSF-N too has long been advocating a directly-elected executive presidential system.