Common use of Amendment to the Constitution Clause in Contracts

Amendment to the Constitution. 1.1 The election of the President, Vice-President and Prime Minister, as well as of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, will be made on the basis of mutual understanding. If the parties fail to reach a consensus, [election of these figures] will be done on the basis of a simple majority of the members of the Constituent Assembly. The Prime Minister’s responsibility of obtaining a vote of confidence will also be done on the basis of a simple majority. In order to draft constitutional amendments on these issues, an amendment ▇▇▇▇ will be presented to the Constituent Assembly with regards to those provisions that are repeated in the Interim Constitution, the Constituent Assembly of 2006 (BS 2063) and the work process of the Legislature-Parliament. 1.2 Provision will be made to have an opposition leader included on the Constitutional Council. 1.3 Due to the fact that there are differences among the seven political parties about whether the leader of the main opposition party should be included on the National Security Council, when the government presents the ▇▇▇▇ to the Constituent Assembly it will be clarified that it will be the Assembly’s responsibility to make a decision on this issue. While the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Communist Party of Nepal (UML), and People’s Front Nepal felt that it was unnecessary to include an opposition leader on the National Security Council, the Nepali Congress, the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) and the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) felt that doing so was necessary. 1.4 The constitution will be amended in order to include representatives from those major political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly on the special committee, as per Article 146 of the Constitution.