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Nepal’s two ruling parties have decided to withdraw an impeachment motion filed against the country’s first woman Chief Justice Sushila Karki, a move that may soon end the tussle between the executive and judiciary.
Kathmandu Post has reported that Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) took the decision during a meeting with the main opposition CPN-UML in Singha Durbar today.
Lawmakers of the two parties had registered an impeachment motion against Karki at the Parliament Secretariat on 30th of April this year. An alliance of opposition parties had been obstructing the House for the past few days to protest the government’s decision of increasing the number of local federal units and demanding withdrawal of the impeachment motion.
With the agreement among the big parties, the main opposition UML has decided to let the House proceed with its business, which has assured that the budget will be announced on 29th of May as provisioned by the Constitution.