12.2 Executive Power (Article 75)

Executive power is vested in the Council of Ministers (75(1)): the power of general direction, control and enforcement of the state's governance — administration, policy implementation, appointments, and (in the parliamentary form) legislative leadership. The Council exercises it in the name of the Government of Nepal (75(3)). Two clarifications: (i) the President, though head of state, does not exercise executive power — the CoM does, through the President's formal acts; (ii) at the other two levels the same pattern repeats — provincial executive power in the provincial Council of Ministers headed by the Chief Minister (Article 162), local executive power in the Village and Municipal Executives (Article 214) — the federal executive of this unit is the top of a three-level pyramid (Unit 6).