KATHMANDU, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Nepalese President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has summoned the first session of the Federal Parliament for March 5, a spokesman at the President's Office said here on Monday.
The first session of the Federal Parliament will be taking place more than two months after the Himalayan nation successfully held landmark provincial and federal parliament elections simultaneously in two phases.
"The president has summoned the first meeting of the Federal Parliament upon the recommendation of the prime minister in accordance with the Article 93(1) of the Constitution," Kul Prasad Chudal, spokesman at the President's Office Sheetal Niwas, said.
The meeting will be held at International Convention Center in New Baneswor in the heart of the capital.
It was mandatory for Nepal to accomplish local, provincial and federal parliament elections by January this year in accordance with the new constitution. These elections were crucial to implement the landmark new constitution adopted in September 2015 in Nepal.
In the aftermath of the elections, people have expectations to end the ruinous instability that has plagued the country since 2008 after the country became a federal democratic republic abolishing the 240-year monarchy.
Nepal will also select a president and a vice president on March 5 once the tenure of current President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun is over.
Elections to the National Assembly were held on Jan. 7 this year, creating the Upper House for the first time in 11 years. Nepal had a unicameral legislature after the Interim Constitution came into implementation on Jan. 15, 2007 until the dissolution of Legislature-Parliament on Oct. 14, 2017.
The milestone constitution of Nepal promulgated in 2015 has envisaged a bicameral parliament in the country.
