There is a legal provision that parties must increase the number of women MPs in parliament to at least one-third, including those in the National Assembly, those directly elected to the House of Representatives, and those who are not.
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It is expected that at least 75 women will be elected in the 110 seats of proportional representation. Since there is a constitutional provision that at least one-third of the total number of members elected by each political party representing the federal parliament should be women, it is expected that 75 women will be elected by the parties to reach that number.
There is a legal provision that parties must increase the number of women members in the parliament to at least one-third by including those in the National Assembly, those directly elected to the House of Representatives, and those not elected through proportional representation. For that, the Election Commission is calculating the number of women that parties that will get seats through proportional representation should elect.
In the 165 seats in the direct route, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won 125, the Nepali Congress (NCS) 18, the Nepali Congress (UML) 9, the Nepali Congress (NCP) 8, the Labor and Social Democratic Party (RSS) 3, the Nepali Congress (RPP) 1, and the Independent Party 1 seat. There is a legal provision that only parties that earn 3 percent of the total votes cast in the proportional route can get MPs through proportional representation. Six parties have been seen to have earned 3 percent of the total votes cast through proportional representation. According to which, the RSVP will get 58 seats, the Congress 19, the UML 16, the NCP 9, the Labor Culture Party 4 and the RPP 4 seats in the proportional representation.
The commission is preparing to distribute the seats in the proportional representation based on the votes received by the political parties and request the names of the members to be elected to the House of Representatives from the respective parties. For that, the commission is preparing to write to the political parties on Wednesday. The commission's secretary, Krishna Bahadur Raut, said that the parties will be given 3 days to form inclusive groups for the seats they received according to the votes and send the names.
There is a constitutional provision that at least one-third of the total number of members elected from each party representing the federal parliament, including the House of Representatives and the National Assembly, should be women. Accordingly, it is seen that the RSVP will have to elect 48 women in the 58 seats it will get. It seems that the RSVP will have 183 MPs in the House of Representatives, including 125 direct and 58 proportional. According to the constitutional provision that one-third of them should be women, 61 women MPs from the RSVP should be in the House of Representatives. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is not present in the National Assembly. Since 13 women were directly elected, it must elect the remaining 48 from the closed list of proportional representation.
The RSS has to elect 16 indigenous people, 18 Khas Aryas, 4 Tharus, 8 Dalits, 9 Madhesis and 3 Muslims from the 58 seats. The RSSS must send the names of at least 48 women and 2 people from backward areas from the inclusive group.
Similarly, it seems that the Congress has to send 14 women from the closed list for the 19 seats it can get from the proportional representation. The Congress has 24 members in the National Assembly. When 37 members are elected from 18 directly in the House of Representatives and 19 from the proportional representation, the number of Congress MPs in the federal parliament will reach 61. The Congress must represent one-third of that, i.e. 21 women. Since there are 6 women in the National Assembly and 1 woman elected directly in the House of Representatives, the Congress must send the remaining 14 women MPs from the 19 proportional representation.
No women MPs have been directly elected from the UML. Seven out of 10 members of its National Assembly are women. Including the 10 directly elected members of the National Assembly and the 9 directly elected members of the House of Representatives and the 16 elected members of the proportional representation, the UML's number of MPs in the federal parliament will reach 35. It needs to have 12 women represented in the federal parliament. For that, it needs to have at least 5 women elected from the proportional representation list. The NCP has 34 members in the federal parliament. There are 17 members in the National Assembly. Eight members have won directly in the House of Representatives. It is expected to get 9 seats from the proportional representation list. The NCP needs to have 12 women represented in the federal parliament. It has 8 women members in the National Assembly. That is why the NCP needs to have at least 4 women elected from the proportional representation list. The Labor Culture Party, which will get 4/4 seats, and the RPP, which will get 2/2 seats, will have to give 2/2 seats to women. Thus, at least 75 women MPs will be elected from 6 political parties out of the 110 seats on the proportional representation list.
Raut, the commission's secretary, who is also responsible for the election officer for the proportional representation, said that political parties that get seats in the proportional representation by cutting the 3 percent 'threshold' should send the names of inclusive groups and women in the order of the closed list according to the percentage specified in the act and rules. "We will write to the parties to send the names of the members to be elected by combining the inclusive groups in the order of the closed list, along with the calculation of how many seats each party will get," he said. After that, the final results of the election will be announced and a report will be submitted to the President, he said.
He mentioned that the concerned party should select the candidates to be elected in accordance with the specified percentage of indigenous peoples, Khas Aryas, Madhesis, Tharus and Muslims, as decided by the central executive committee or a similar committee, and send them to the commission. After the names are received from the parties in this way, the commission will investigate whether the inclusive groups and the order of the closed list specified in the act and rules match or not. If they do not match, the commission will again instruct the concerned party to combine them and send them. The commission has drawn up an internal work schedule to request names from parties by 30 Falgun, investigate whether the names match or not in the next two days, and have them corrected as needed.
