KATHMANDU: The CPN-UML has decided to go to polls by proposing Chairman KP Sharma Oli as the next prime minister.
A UML Central Committee (CC) meeting, which was held to prepare for November 20 elections, decided to promote Oli as the future prime minister.
After the CC meeting concluded on Saturday, UML leader Kiran Gurung said, “The CC meeting decided to put forth KP Oli as PM as per the suggestions from the group discussion.”
The CC meeting that ran for two days at the party office Chyasal, Lalitpur, also fixed criteria for selecting candidates in the elections.
UML Chair Oli has already served three terms as prime minister from October 11, 2015, to August 1, 2016; from February 15, 2018, to May 13, 2021 — he served as the first elected prime minister under the new constitution; and from May 13, 2021, to July 13, 2021, as a minority prime minister, as none of the opposition parties were able to form a majority government or lay their claim for it in the provided time frame.
The first time Oli became PM, he was relieved of his post in 9 months after the power partner Maoists withdrew their support for the government.
He got comfortable majority after the UML and Maoist Center united in 2017. However, after he dissolved the parliament twice, he was ousted.
Comment