{"id":77885,"date":"2024-03-13T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/nepal-pm-wins-parliamentary-vote-of-confidence-third-in-14-months\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:12:45","slug":"nepal-pm-wins-parliamentary-vote-of-confidence-third-in-14-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/nepal-pm-wins-parliamentary-vote-of-confidence-third-in-14-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal PM wins parliamentary vote of confidence, third in 14 months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u00a9 Reuters. Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, delivers a speech before a confidence vote at the parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal January 10, 2023. REUTERS\/Navesh Chitrakar\/File Photo<\/span>
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By Gopal Sharma<\/p>\n

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday, a week after he formed his third coalition in just over a year to head a government which is dominated by the liberal communists.<\/p>\n

Dahal, a former Maoist guerrilla leader in the Himalayan nation sandwiched between China and India, formed a coalition cabinet including the Nepali Congress party and other smaller groups last year.<\/p>\n

He changed allies this month saying he was not given a free hand.<\/p>\n

The new cabinet is dominated by the liberal Nepal Communist Party (UML) and includes several other smaller groups. He had also headed a coalition with the UML briefly after the 2022 elections.<\/p>\n

Parliament Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire said Dahal won 157 votes against the 138 required in the 275-member parliament, while 110 lawmakers voted against him.<\/p>\n

“I was let down several times … and was forced to form a new coalition cabinet, which is just a regular political process,” Dahal said in parliament on Wednesday, referring to the Nepali Congress, which is now the main opposition party.<\/p>\n

Nepali Congress said after the break-up last week that the prime minister had deceived it by dumping it from the cabinet without any notice.<\/p>\n

Dahal led a decade-long insurgency from 1996 which caused 17,000 deaths before he joined mainstream politics under the 2006 peace deal overseen by the United Nations.<\/p>\n

He is serving a third time as prime minister but did not complete the full five-year term during his previous stints.<\/p>\n

Nepal has had 13 governments since it abolished its 239-year-old monarchy in 2008 and became a republic.<\/p>\n

Instability has hampered growth of the $40 billion economy and thousands of young Nepalis are heading abroad – mainly to the Middle East, South Korea and Malaysia – for work.<\/p>\n

Nepal has extensive social and economic ties with India, a key donor. China is also pouring in aid and investment in infrastructure to woo Kathmandu as an ally. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Reuters. Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, delivers a speech before a confidence vote at the parliament in Kathmandu, Nepal January 10, 2023. REUTERS\/Navesh Chitrakar\/File Photo By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday, a week after he formed his third coalition in just over a year to head a government which is dominated by the liberal communists. Dahal, a former Maoist guerrilla leader in the Himalayan nation sandwiched between China and India, formed a coalition cabinet including the Nepali Congress party and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":77886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equitynewsreport.com\/h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}