Kathmandu, May 29:

Constitutional experts and political analysts today said the eight-party alliance would lose its legitimacy after mid-June as it is not able to hold elections to the Constituent Assembly in the time stipulated by the Interim Constitution 2007.

“After June, the government will lose its constitutional and political legitimacy,” said former Minister Nilambar Acharya, adding that the eight-party alliance should find a way to give legitimacy to the government in the backdrop that it has failed to hold the elections to the Constituent Assembly in the time stipulated by the Interim Constitution 2007.

As per the Article 33 (a) of the Interim Constitution, the state should hold a free and impartial election for the members of the Constituent Assembly within Jestha 2064 (by mid-June 2007).

Acharya said this while addressing an interaction on Constitution and CA election organised by Forum for Women Law and Development today.

“If the people decide not to accept the decision of the political parties to postpone the election to constituent assembly, then the politicians will lose their legitimacy,” said constitutional law expert Purna Man Shakya. “So gaining public support is a must to fix the date for CA polls by amending the Interim Constitution,” Shakya added.

Political analyst Prof Krishna Khanal said it was necessary to adopt federalism. “We cannot accept ethnicity-based federalism in the country,” he added.