Leader of Nepal’s largest communist party named new Prime Minister

The leader of Nepal’s largest communist party, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, has been named the Prime Minister  after shaping a new alliance in the country’s turbulent Parliament.

A statement on Sunday by the office of the president said the 72-year-old Oli will take his oath of office on Monday, the fourth time he is becoming the Prime Minister .

He is replacing Pushpa Kamal Dahal, whose 18-month-old government collapsed on Friday after Oli’s party, the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, agreed to a new coalition with the centre-left Nepali Congress party.

Oli will now have to succeed where his predecessor failed earlier this week, securing a vote of confidence in Parliament to continue in office within a month. The two parties have more than half the members in parliament required for a majority vote.

Under the new power-sharing arrangement, Oli and the Nepali Congress party’s president Sher Bahadur Deuba, 78, will rotate in holding the Prime Minister ’s post until the next general election in 2027. (Aljazeera)

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