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Newly elected Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli is being sworn by President Ram Chandra Paudel, unseen, at the Presidential residence in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 15, 2024
THE leader of Nepal’s largest communist party was inaugurated as prime minister at a ceremony in Kathmandu yesterday.
Khadga Prasad Oli, who heads the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), was named for the post on Sunday, following the collapse of a previous coalition government.
The new government is a coalition of Mr Oli’s party with the Nepali Congress. The two parties are the largest in Nepal.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
