Unwarranted cynicism

At the start of his tenure, the new Speaker of the House deserves everyone’s benefit of doubt.

Perhaps few will disagree that Nepali politics is geared more towards securing the petty interests of individual leaders and their parties rather than to the common goal of strengthening democracy. The latest evidence of this is the ruling coalition’s attempts to keep the Speaker of the House from working against their interest. They apparently see Dev Raj Ghimire more as a CPN-UML representative rather than an administrative head of a democratically-elected House. Lawmakers representing the ruling coalition are now trying to curb the Speaker’s prerogatives, fearing he could derail their political ambitions.