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The 1959 constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, proclaimed on 12 February 1959, first mentions the Pratinidhi Sabha first as follows: "There shall be a Parliament which shall consist of His Majesty and two Houses, to be known respectively as the Senate and the House of Representatives (Pratinidhi Sabha)" (Article No. 18, Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1959).
The House of Representatives (प्रतिनिधि सभा, Pratinidhi Sabha) has 275 members. 165 members are elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 110 elected through proportional electoral system where voters vote for political parties, considering the whole country as a single election ...
The House of Representatives of Nepal is the lower house of the country's Federal Parliament. It is housed at the International Convention Centre , in Kathmandu , the capital. The current House of Representatives was elected by the general elections held on 20 November 2022 , and its first session convened on 9 January 2023.
The National Assembly or Rastriya Sabha (Nepali: राष्ट्रिय सभा, romanized: Rāṣṭriya Sabhā) is the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Nepal, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Assembly are established by Part 8 and 9 of the Constitution of Nepal.
The post of Speaker is vacated:- (a) if he or she ceases to be a member of the House of Representatives, Provided that, in the event of dissolution of the House of Representatives, the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives holding their respective offices shall continue in office until the previous day of the filing of nominations for another election to the House of ...
The party needs to win at least one FPTP seat in Pratinidhi Sabha. The party gets at least 3% of the total valid proportional representation (PR) votes in Pratinidhi Sabha. There are currently eight national parties in Nepal. [4]
Mukhtiyar Bhimsen Thapa was the first person to be referred to as prime minister by the British. [9] Similarly, historian Chittaranjan Nepali writes that the first institution to hold all state powers was the position of Mukhtiyar which was established after King Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from Varanasi.
Dev Raj Ghimire is a Nepalese politician, currently serving as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal since 19 January 2023. [1] Ghimire is a member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal. In the 2022 Nepalese general election, he won the election from Jhapa 2 (constituency). [2] He is also a standing committee member of the CPN ...