A major communist party has withdraw of Nepal’s ruling coalition, asking Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to ge a vote of confidence from the parliament, reports says.
The Communist Party of Nepal, also recognized as Unified Marxist Leninist or UML, the largest party in the ruling coalition, was not happy by Dahal’s decision to join hands with an opposition candidate in next week’s key presidential election.
It is the third party to back out from the government since it started its rule in December, after no party could secure a majority in the November elections of parliament.
Political upheveals and frequent changes in the government are a usual business in Nepal, where 11 different governments have ruled since the Himalayan neighborhood state abolished its 239-year monarchy in 2008 and became a democratic republic.
A former key Maoist rebel leader, Dahal, who is known by his nom de guerre Prachanda, has kept this post for like three times. But it was never clear that if he could keep his stay in power.
Read Also: Ministry of Human Rights Hosts Officials from Nepal on ‘Peer Learning Session’
The constitution asks that he should have to get a vote of confidence within a month’s time to maintain his majority in the 275 members’ House of Representatives, the lower part of the parliament.
Prachanda who recently received the backing of the opposition Nepali Congress party, the largest known group in the parliament, after giving consent to back their candidature for presidency.
In last December, he formed a seven-party union consisting of his Maoist Centre party, the UML and 5 other smaller party segment.
Last week, Prachanda made angry the UML by offering support for the Nepali Congress party’s presidential candidate, Ram Chandra Paudel.
Prachanda had already given consent to support a UML candidate for the same presidency, according to the his fellow politicians in the coalition.
