Excellent Program! It is true that people who have grip on the current unitary system having hard time to give up and share the power with those who are deprived - geographic and ethnic wise, once they became aware about what it really means the federalism to them! But the majority people have great hope in federalism. Federalism is a must in Nepal now, if not political instability will cripple the country. People will rebel against the ruling parties and elites. The NCUML common proposal on contentious issues has complicated the constitution drafting process because it utterly undermines federalism in every aspects. It even does not have elements of territorial based asymmetric or administrative federalism despite 7 states! If it had federal structure it would simply have someways to address identity. For example, adopting mixed electoral - direct and proportional for federal, states and local level elections. The most worst of all is the judiciary system! How on earth the court system of states can be managed by the judicial council of the central gov? However, the central model states can adopt but cannot have the hierarchy over the state judiciary system. Otherwise, independence of judiciary of the state will be violated. The proposal is silent about the local units and their electoral mechanism. This is technically unfit document for proposal and is an insult to the PDDC. Therefore, PDDC can send the document back to the ruling party to clarify, for example, the electoral system for state units, judiciary system of the state independent of the central hierarchy for the purpose of independence of state judiciary, etc. I strongly suggest PDDC chair to take technical action on the fact that document is not a proposal but a scrap of draft that came out of brainstorming. Nepal needs desperately restructuring of state under the federal system both to exploit natural resources and uplift marginalised identities. Number of state must be based on these factors with the electoral system for all units of the government - federal, state and local. Most of all, states must govern themselves under the Supreme Law of the nation with the right to self-determination to legislate rules and regulation of the state. These fundamental elements of federalism do not exist in the common proposal of the NCUML. Therefore, it is not qualified to be forwarded to CA. I hope PDDC will reject and return the document back to NCUML coalition.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:50:12 +0000
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