PRAKASH MATHEMA\/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n Nepal is set for a new coalition government led by KP Sharma Oli after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a parliamentary vote of confidence on Friday, ending a tumultuous 20-month tenure.\n <\/p>\n
Nepal has been politically unstable since it abolished a 239-year-old monarchy in 2008. Oli’s new government will be the 14th since then.<\/p>\n
Its politics are closely monitored by its two big neighbours China and India, who have invested heavily in the Himalayan country as they jostle for influence.<\/p>\n
Dahal, 69, was forced to either resign or prove his majority in parliament after his largest ally, the liberal Communist Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) party, led by Oli, withdrew support last week.<\/p>\n
Oli, who has been prime minister twice before, struck a deal with the centrist Nepali Congress (NC) at the end of June, securing enough seats for a majority, meaning he is poised to govern, but no date has been set for the new government to take office.<\/p>\n
Dahal, a former Maoist rebel chief, needed at least 138 votes in his favour in the 275-member house to retain power. A total of 63 of the 258 lawmakers present in the chambers voted for him, 194 voted against, and one abstained.<\/p>\n
“The confidence vote sought by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been rejected,” Parliament Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire declared after the ballots were counted.<\/p>\n
In his third term as prime minister, which began in December 2022, Dahal changed his main coalition partner three times and had to seek a vote of confidence five times, including the one he lost on Friday.<\/p>\n
“The new coalition was necessitated by a need for political stability,” UML lawmaker Yogesh Bhattarai said.<\/p>\n
In a speech ahead of Friday’s vote, Dahal said Oli’s coalition of the two biggest political parties was against democratic practice.<\/p>\n
UML is the largest party in parliament and NC is the second largest.<\/p>\n
“I am concerned this might lead to regression and authoritarianism,” said Dahal, whose Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) is the third largest party.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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