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Communist Party leader in Nepal takes over as the country's prime minister
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. 

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