According to an official statement on Monday, Nepal’s recently appointed Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” has chosen to call for a vote of confidence in the Parliament on January 10.
On December 26, the 68-year-old leader of the CPN-Maoist Centre party was sworn in as prime minister for the third time after abruptly leaving the pre-election partnership with opposition leader K P Sharma Oli.
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On Monday, Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” asked the parliament secretariat to set up the agenda for the vote of confidence in the legislature on January 10. According to Rojnath Pandey, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson, “The Prime Minister has issued a letter to add the subject of vote of confidence on the agenda of the Parliament on the 10th of January.”
A constitutional requirement states that the Prime Minister must submit a vote of confidence within one month after taking the oath of office. After the nation’s elections on November 20, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari announced the first session of the new Parliament on January 9.
The next prime minister of the landlocked country, “Prachanda,” will be sworn in during this inaugural Parliamentary session. After submitting a letter to President Bhandari demonstrating the support of 169 members of the 275-member House of Representatives, Prachanda was chosen as the new prime minister of the nation.
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To command a convincing majority in the House, Prachanda needs 138 votes. Seven parties, including the recently founded Rastriya Swatantra Party and Oli’s CPN-UML (Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist), endorse him (RSP).
