The law will bar candidates who have been convicted or have not been sentenced for serious crimes such as corruption, rape, and human trafficking from contesting elections.
What you should know
It has been provided that any person who is employed in an organization receiving a salary from the government, provincial government, or local level and is on the list of candidates for the proportional representation system from a political party will be disqualified.
Candidates will be disqualified even if they have not completed two years from the date of serving such a sentence as per the prevailing election law.
The Election Commission has set the date for the election of members of the House of Representatives for the upcoming Falgun 21. 165 members of the total 275-member House of Representatives will be elected through the direct election system. Similarly, there is a provision to select 110 members through the proportional election system.
The Commission has recently formed a committee regarding the proportional election system and determined the percentage based on the population after conducting the necessary study. According to the Proportional Election of Members of the House of Representatives (First Amendment) Directive, 2082, those who have committed crimes related to corruption, rape, human trafficking and smuggling, sale, distribution and export or import of narcotics, money laundering, passport misuse, kidnapping will be declared disqualified.
There is a provision that candidates who have been convicted of other criminal offenses involving moral turpitude or sentenced to life imprisonment or 20 years or more imprisonment for any offense will be disqualified even if such a decision has become final. There is a legal provision that those who have been sentenced to imprisonment for an organized crime offense or sentenced to imprisonment for a crime related to duty for less than 20 years and have not completed six years from the date of completion of such sentence are also disqualified.
Those who have been sentenced to imprisonment for a crime related to caste discrimination and untouchability, boxing or polygamy and have not completed three years from the date of completion of such sentence are not eligible to be candidates. Those who are blacklisted for the entire period of that period as per the prevailing law, those who have been imprisoned for the entire period of their imprisonment, those who are mentally unstable, and those who have obtained a permanent residence permit from a foreign country are not eligible to be candidates.
