PM Oli secures two-thirds of votes in trust motion

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's proposal for confidence motion was passed with a majority of votes in the House of Representatives (HoR) on Sunday.

PM Oli's bid of trust motion presented as per Article 76 (4) of the Constitution of Nepal, 2072 was passed with a majority of votes in accordance with Rule No 155 of the HoR Regulation. Speaker Devraj Ghimire declared that that the PM was able to collect votes from a majority of lawmakers present in the meeting.

At total of 263 HoR members participated in the voting. Among them, the political parties including the Nepali Congress and the CPN UML voted for PM Oli which accumulated 188 votes, while the lawmakers of the parties such as CPN (Maoist Centre), RSP, RPP, CPN (Unified Socialist) voted against PM Oli. They had 74 votes.

The votes PM Oli collected- 188- in the trust motion is the two-thirds of the total HoR members present in the meeting.

A HoR member stayed neutral.

Chairman of the CPN UML, Oli, was appointed the PM with the backing of largest political party in the parliament, Nepali Congress, on July 12.

The NC and the UML, then a coalition partner in Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government, had inked a seven-point agreement on July 1, thereby paving way to pull down the Dahal government.

The HoR will meet next at 1:00pm Monday.