Nepal’s President, Ram Baran Yadav, has issued an appeal for installing a majority government as per Article 298 (3) of the Constitution of Nepal.
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Nepal’s new Prime Minister will be elected on Sunday through voting in Parliament after political parties failed to forge consensus, it was announced today, amid continued protests and blockade of a key border trade point with India over the country’s new Constitution.
Koirala formally resigned from his post on Saturday, honouring an earlier pledge to step down from his post once the country’s new constitution was adopted.
Koirala, president of the largest party, Nepali Congress, was elected in February 2014.
Candidates will be able to file their nominations on Saturday for the prime ministerial election that will be held from 11 a.m. on Sunday.
After filing his nomination papers, Koirala said that he had made a decision to contest the election on his party’s directive.
Sushil Koirala of Nepali Congress party and CPN-UML Chairman K.P. Sharma Oli are in the race for the Prime Minister post in Nepal.
However, no other parties have openly assured support to NC candidate Koirala though it is likely that the Madhes-based parties, with 57 members in House in total, will stand for him.
Koirala and Oli’s party formed a coalition government in 2014 after the two parties together won almost two-thirds of the seats in parliament.
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More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters representing ethnic minorities, including the Madhesi and Tharu communities, who say a new federal structure laid out in the constitution will leave them under-represented in the national parliament. Once Koirala also does so, there will be a straight fight for the post.
