Don’t remove LGBTIQ+ persons from PR closed list: SC. The Supreme Court (SC) issued an interim order in the name of the Election Commission refusing to implement the decision to remove the names of LGBTIQ+ people from the closed list of the proportional representation (PR) system for the November 20 elections.
On Monday, a single bench led by Justice Dr. Anand Mohan Bhattarai issued an interim order instructing the Commission not to carry out its decision to remove sexual minorities from the list. The EC had removed the names of 37 candidates, including 17 for the House of Representatives and 20 for provincial assemblies, whose gender identities were mislabeled in the closed list and on their citizenship certificates. Don’t remove LGBTIQ+ persons from PR closed list: SC.
Dilu Buduja, who has obtained citizenship with a third gender identity, was named to the CPN (Unified Socialist) Party’s PR closed list of candidates.
The party filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court against the Commission’s decision to remove the name of Buduja from the PR list. In the writ petition, an interim order was sought to stop the implementation of the Commission’s decision, arguing that the decision to remove the candidature from the closed list was against the principles of natural justice.
