Dec. 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Nepal, Bidya Devi Bhandari, has appointed the Maoist communist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal as the new prime minister, a position he has held on two previous occasions, the last time five years ago, thus ending the political impasse established after the elections from the end of November.
Surprisingly, Dahal has been chosen as the new prime minister, considering that his Communist Party-Maoist Center came third in the parliamentary elections on November 20. However, in the end, he has had the support of 169 deputies out of the 275 that make up the lower house of Parliament.
Dahal has reclaimed the position once it has been known that he had the support of all the parties present in Parliament with the exception of the Nepali Congress, which fell two seats short of a majority in the last elections, the United Socialist Communist Party and the Democratic Socialist Party.
Dahal has returned to power for the third time with the support of the Marxist-Leninist communists — the main opposition force — and a dozen other minority parties, hours after he broke away from the ruling alliance led by the prime minister. outgoing, Sher Bahadur Deuba.
Dahal is now scheduled to be sworn in on Monday and within a month he must demonstrate to Parliament that he has a sufficient majority to govern, reports the Nepalese daily ‘Kathmandu Post’.
Dahal’s appointment seems to provide a breather to the always turbulent political situation of this small nation, surrounded by the two great giants of the Asian continent, China and India, which since 2008 has known a dozen governments.
