11.6 Dissolution of Legislature

The one door (Article 76(7)): if the government-formation ladder exhausts — the PM appointed under (3) or (5) fails the confidence vote and no member can be appointed — the President, on the PM's recommendation, dissolves the HoR and fixes elections within six months; pending bills under consideration die; What dissolution is NOT: no discretionary dissolution — the 1990s–2000s traumas of casual mid-term dissolutions are deliberately foreclosed; the NA is never dissolved (86(3)); The judicial dimension: dissolution is reviewable — the 2020–21 dissolution-and- reinstatement saga (the Supreme Court reinstating the House; the bound-presidency doctrine confirmed) shows the Court as the final referee of the dissolution power's limits (Unit 13's jurisdiction, Unit 18's case-line).